Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has defended his plans to abolish AWAs, telling the Business Council that the individual contracts, along with the removal of the no disadvantage test, undermine employer incentives to boost productivity and set in train an "inevitable" race to the bottom.
The Victorian Government has failed to block a Federal Court injunction stopping the summary dismissal of a departmental solicitor for "serious misconduct."
In a report the ALP has seized on as evidence that Work Choices is "all pain for no gain", the OECD has found that centralised bargaining reduces unemployment, while the minimum wage level has "no significant direct impact" on unemployment.
The TWU's national office has won its appeal against the first order to stop industrial action under Work Choices, after the employer companies agreed that the order should only apply to the union's NSW branch.
An Adelaide hairdresser has missed out on the prize of a car she won from her employer as part of an incentive program because she did not comply with a requirement to keep working for the company, even though she was unaware of it.
Government savages Beazley's AWA abolition amid more Work Choices fears; Three SA IRC members snuffed by Work Choices; Correction - Triangle Cables was the first operational reasons dismissal ruling under Work Choices; and ABC Learning employees dissatisfied with conditions, says report.
The AIRC has rejected an unfair dismissal application under the Work Choices exclusion for "genuine operational reasons" and has noted that few employees will have the resources or capability to challenge such an employer claim.
All NSW Government workers will be protected from Work Choices, after Premier Morris Iemma committed to shielding 30,000 employees of State-owned corporations from the legislation, in addition to the 186,000 Crown employees already sheltered from the federal legislation.
The AIRC has agreed to delay a secret ballot by 24 hours to ensure that attendance at the workplace isn't hampered by the Australia-Brazil World Cup soccer clash, which will be broadcast from 1.30am eastern time on Monday, June 19.
