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ABC lifts wage offer to 4% after strike action

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.

News in brief, November 10, 2006

ETU mass meeting on Wednesday; ACTU Tullamarine billboard up; Posties' ipods leads to CEPU podcasts; and Senior Commissioner Gregor retires.

Right of entry dispute escalates at ATO

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.

News flash: High Court decision on Tuesday

The High Court will on Tuesday morning deliver its crucial decision on the States' and unions' constitutional challenge to the Work Choices legislation.

No discrimination against gambler, tribunal finds

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.


Full time super for part time older workers at university

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.

St Gobain unlawfully sacked delegates, says court

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.

Tribunal orders reinstatement for court officer sacked for misconduct

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."

Receivers could be liable for unfair dismissal: NSW IRC

In what is understood to be the first decision of its kind, the NSW IRC has joined the receivers and managers of a hotel as respondents in an unfair dismissal action launched by the hotel's former housekeeper.