After years of lobbying for laws to override state deeming provisions, Independent Contractors of Australia is now threatening to withdraw support for the Federal Government's independent contractors legislation - unless it is amended in debate before the Senate likely next week.
Melbourne parts manufacturer Heinemann Electric has lost its appeal against an AIRC finding that a union claim seeking protection for employee entitlements is not prohibited content.
An employee who breached company policy by sending an e-mail containing a racial slur should not have been summarily dismissed although the offence warranted termination with notice, the WA Industrial Relations Commission has found.
Employer fears of higher leave entitlements to account for regularly worked overtime or penalty rates under Work Choices are overstated, according to a leading industrial lawyer.
A s496 order preventing CEPU members at Australia Post from attending protests against Work Choices in June should not have been made because the union was not organising industrial action, an AIRC Full Bench has ruled.
OWS to check employer greenfield agreement in take-over; PM celebrates one-millionth AWA; Members Equity Bank offers mortgage breaks for workers hit by industrial action; and Combet joins ME Bank board.
ABC Learning has agreed with the LHMU to offer free studies at its training centres for childcare employees staying 18 months after their course, and 2% annual wage rises, in one of the first multiple business agreements under Work Choices.
Striking AMWU employees of Quality Maintenance Services working on Esso oil and gas platforms in the Bass Strait have been sent back to work after the AIRC found they were taking industrial action in pursuit of prohibited content.
The Ramsey group of companies was today ordered by the Federal Court to pay $209,217 in compensation and fines for the unlawful termination of 12 workers at its South Grafton Abattoir in breach of the pre-reform Workplace Relations Act's freedom of association provisions.
