Companies are using Work Choices' employer greenfields agreements to exclude all or most protected award conditions, while in service industries they are using the instruments to secure low wage arrangements with no or low shift and penalty rates, a survey by Workplace Express confirms.
The ABC has increased its pay offer from 3% to 4% a year in a revised proposal to CPSU and MEAA members after weeks of rolling stoppages, including a 24-hour strike.
The Australian Taxation Office is appealing against an AIRC order giving an ASU official the right to interview members at their workstations, in an escalating dispute over union right of entry provisions.
The High Court will on Tuesday morning deliver its crucial decision on the States' and unions' constitutional challenge to the Work Choices legislation.
A woman with a gambling addition has failed in her bid to claim that her employer's refusal to pay salary maintenance when she moved to Perth to escape Victoria's gaming machines amounted to indirect discrimination.
The ETU in Victoria is getting legal advice on whether the Federal Government's latest change to the construction industry code of practice - which has thrown bargaining in the State's electrical contracting sector into chaos - is unlawful.
Employees aged over 50 at the Australian Catholic University will be able to ease down to part-time work while retaining full-time superannuation benefits as part of a new plan to retain older workers and create openings for new employees.
The Federal Court has today ordered the reinstatement of two National Union of Workers delegates, after finding their employer breached the Work Choices freedom of association provisions when it selected them for redundancy.
The NSW IRC has ordered the reinstatement of a court official who was sacked over allegations of harassment, including s--ual harassment outside the workplace, after finding his conduct was part of an inappropriate but not unlawful "pub culture."
