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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.

The Bracks Government has promised to protect workers not covered by Work Choices by establishing a new award-based standard that includes the "right to request" provisions scrapped by the new federal legislation, if it is returned to office on November 25.

A bid by Qantas longhaul pilots for a finding that the airline unlawfully damaged their interests with its plans to move four aircraft to Jetstar has hit severe turbulence, after the Federal Court today threw out the claim.

A NSW IRC full bench has overturned the summary dismissal of a company's long-serving supervisor for receiving, viewing and storing pornographic material, and recommended the employer strengthen its purported zero tolerance policy and install a firewall to block similar material entering its IT system.

The award rationalisation process will exempt enterprise awards unless the parties want otherwise; ensure award-free workers remain as such; be based in part on ANZSIC classifications; and be carried out by the AIRC on a sectoral basis and in conjunction with the award simplification process, the Federal Government said today.

The Independent Contractors Bill is unlikely to return to Parliament this year, the Workplace Relations' Minister's representative told a Senate Committee last night.

In a bombshell decision, the AIRC has formally thrown out the concept of ambit in bargaining, finding it no longer relevant under Work Choices.

The TCF Union has begun a FOA case against the purchasers of failed carpet manufacturer Feltex Australia, while both the Office of Workplace Services and the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate have begun investigations into the requirement for its employees to sign AWAs if they want to work for the company's new owner.

The OWS has not launched any prosecutions over the Work Choices AWAs referred to it by the OEA, director Nicholas Wilson told a Senate Estimates hearing today.

Up to half a million workers are paid less than the federal minimum wage, due either to them not being covered by awards or their employers failing to comply with awards, according to research conducted for the Fair Pay Commission.