The new Work Choices rules on secret ballots for industrial action don't require the nature of the proposed action to be spelt out in a highly prescriptive form, the AIRC has held.
The Melbourne call centre that services German airline Lufthansa's customers could be breaching state and federal equal opportunity and anti-discrimination laws by offering AWAs that reduce workers' pay if they use their sick or carer's leave, according to legal advice obtained by the ASU.
Nursing home secret ballot case referred to conciliation; New remuneration and compensation limits for unfair dismissal claims; 4.4% rise for Fair Pay Commissioners; and new panels for AIRC.
South Grafton Abattoir faces compensation payments of more than $130,000 for breaching the pre-Work Choices freedom of association provisions after a successful prosecution by the Employment Advocate in the Federal Court.
Union collective agreements covering 40,000-plus public servants will take effect in the new financial year, with Australian Tax Office, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and civilian Defence employees set to obtain pay rises in the vicinity of 4% per year.
The power-sharing plan thrashed out to heal internal ructions in the CFMEU's construction division is about to be put out for endorsement, at the same time as the combined union's national secretary, John Maitland, calls it a day.
After a long campaign against both non-union collective deals and AWAs, unions have reached an in-principle agreement with the University of Ballarat for a new collective deal.
Just a week after its first secret ballot on industrial action was declared, the ACT branch of the AEU has had to go back to the AIRC to seek authorisation for a second one.
