The Work Choices regulations that forbid union training clauses in industrial agreements do not prevent training actually being provided, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has confirmed.
A majority of the Australian Tax Office’s 20,000-plus employees have expressed their support for a 13% over three years pay offer under a draft deal that is yet to be signed off by the DEWR.
The Howard Government could soon facing a new High Court challenge, this time against Canberra's proposed Independent Contractors Bill, NSW IR Minister John Della Bosca said today.
Bendigo Mining dropped an application in the AIRC for orders against industrial action at its Victorian gold mine redevelopment after around 130 workers returned to work this morning following a stoppage over electrical safety fears.
Garuda Indonesia has been twice frustrated this week in its bid for a preventative s496 order against possible industrial action by ASU members at Perth airport.
The UK's "right to request" provisions - the model for the family provisions test case standard in Australia that has been overridden by Work Choices - appears to be responsible for a dramatic increase in employees' use of flexible working arrangements, according to a new study.
The High Court has today handed down three long-awaited decisions on the reach of the NSW unfair contract provisions, holding in all of them that the NSW IRC did not have jurisdiction in the matters that had been before it. The significance of the rulings, however, has been substantially undermined by both Work Choices and NSW amending legislation.
Freehills partner Graeme Watson is to be appointed to the AIRC as a vice president, to replace Iain Ross, who resigned to join law firm Corrs earlier this year.
The AEC has today declared the second successful strike ballot under the Work Choices legislation, after an overwhelming majority of AMWU members endorsed industrial action at Amcor's Kyabram food can manufacturing plant in Victoria.
