Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has intervened to support an employer in an operational reasons dismissal appeal which was still before a full bench of the AIRC late this afternoon.
Older Australian men are reversing a 25-year trend of declining labour force participation, with their involvement rate increasing over the last five years, according to a Treasury paper.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet has called for a new national consensus to deliver Australia's long-term economic prosperity and social needs, in a wide-ranging speech in which he opposed nuclear energy and attacked the Telstra privatisation.
The Queenland Government discriminated against Aboriginal workers paid below-award wages at two Lutheran missions during the 1970s and 1980s, the Federal Court has ruled.
OWS warns of "huge fines" for underpayment of wages as another four employers prosecuted; Victorian public sector nurses to seek 7% annual pay rises in next EBA; and ACTU starts radio ads for Work Choices protest.
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.
