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.
Terminations resulting from the restructure of part of a business may not be for genuine operational reasons if no attempt is made to find positions for sacked employees in other parts of the business, the AIRC has found.
The Work Choices laws are unsustainable and, unless they are significantly amended, will be "swept aside" in six to eight years, according to the Dean of Law at the University of Sydney, Professor Ron McCallum.
CEPU gives ASU coverage of Optus call centre workers in SA; Victorian district nurses to protest RDNS management practices; and New deadline for James Hardie asbestos victims deal.
An Adelaide cleaning business is the first company to be prosecuted by the Office of Workplace Services for allegedly lodging an agreement approved by employees who were not subject to the deal.
Acrimony over Work Choices dominated Friday's meeting of IR ministers, but some agreement was reached on the process of harmonising OHS laws nationally.
The Federal Government will reject a proposal by American Express Corporation for a new labour agreement allowing it to undercut Minimum Salary Levels for 160 temporary skilled migrants from Japan to work in a Sydney call centre.
