Documents obtained by the ACTU show that the ACCI and the Howard Government are secretly preparing for a new wave of IR changes to allow AWAs to override Work Choices' five minimum standards and to give employers the right to stand down workers without notice and require employees to work more than 38 hours a week, according to the union peak body.
An application under s496 by car parts manufacturer ZF Lemfoerder to have Huon Corporation workers ordered back to work has been adjourned this afternoon, and will resume in a conference involving three of the big four car makers tomorrow afternoon.
Protest wasn't industrial action, says AIRC; Andrews extends EAP; Federal assistance package for redundant Coles Myer distribution centre workers; Deadlines looming for submissions to AFPC and other inquiries; and AIRC centenary exhibition heads south for winter.
The NSW Independent Education Union will seek to clarify the extent of state award coverage of non-government schools, in a special case application it has made to the State Industrial Court for a new four-year award to cover non-government school teachers from 2007.
The Iemma Government has today withdrawn from federal-state negotiations to harmonise OHS laws, after IR Minister John Della Bosca said he feared another Work Choices-style takeover of state turf.
Ford Australia is facing stand-downs at its Broadmeadows plant from Friday if the strike over entitlements at auto components manufacturer Huon Corporation is not resolved by the close of business on Thursday. Huon Corporation's administrators, meanwhile, have launched a Supreme Court action aimed at recovering some of the company's assets.
Building products manufacturer James Hardie is offering AWAs to its casual workforce as a condition of permanent employment at its Carole Park site in Brisbane during stalled negotiations for a new collective deal.
The former principal of a college for Indigenous students in the remote Northern Territory has failed to prove she was discriminated against by the school's management.
NSW public sector faces retirement surge; AFPC publishes comments on first consultation session; Morgan poll suggests workers confused about AWAs; and POAV members vote up merger with APESMA.
