A pharmacy distribution company has been ordered to pay $15,000 for racial discrimination to a storeperson who was allegedly called a “lazy black Indian bitch”, and for its failure to properly deal with her complaint.
A construction industry contractor that lodged a non-union agreement with the OEA has been found by the AIRC to have been involved in a transmission of business with a company within its group bound to a union collective deal.
With both the ALP and ACTU committing to a majority-rules collective bargaining circuit breaker, a paper on statutory union recognition systems warns that those that focus on single-employer bargaining have in-built disadvantages for unions.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma has this afternoon launched a new campaign by NSW unions to sign up "fair employers" to a guarantee that they won't cut wages, move their workers onto AWAs or make them independent contractors.
The ASU has began legal proceedings in the Victorian Magistrates Court against Qantas Holidays Limited, alleging the company's changes to part-time call centre employees' rosters are discriminatory and in breach of the award.
The maritime unions' long-running legal battle to have Australian IR law apply to foreign-flagged vessels and foreign crew operating on the Australian coast came to an end - for as long as Work Choices remains law - in the High Court this morning.
The CFMEU's mining and energy division, in a bid to head off the climate change threat to its members in coal mining, is preparing to run shareholder campaigns to build support for mining companies to increase their spending on low emission coal-burning technology.
The OWS has filed legal action against the Hibberd and Prescott group over alleged AWA duress and the underpayment of wages for hotel workers in Tasmania, and says resistance and obstruction to its investigation might constitute criminal offences.
Growth in rates of pay has dipped in hospitality and retail since Work Choices became law, while annual growth in rates across all industries is failing to match headline inflation, according to the ABS.
