The ACTU claims ABL State Chamber is advising its members to blame the Howard Government if Work Choices forces them to make unpopular changes in the workplace, but the employer organisation says the union peak body is wrong.
Tasmanian IRC rebuffs Canberra bid to delay wage case; First AIRC listing of dismissal claim under Work Choices; Submissions close next month for NSW Work Choices inquiry; Former Ansett workers receive another payment; and NSW inquiry line getting thousands of Work Choices complaints: Della Bosca.
After failing to reach agreement during six months of negotiations for a new three-year enterprise deal, about 300 doctors working in Victorian public hospitals will next week stop work to discuss the next steps in their campaign.
Victorian unions are maintaining their call for the Bracks Government to reverse the State's referral of industrial relations powers to the Commonwealth as the ALP finalises its policies for this year's State election.
The Howard Government has put up $2.6m a year to subsidise parties that opt for private alternative dispute resolution instead of having their disputes dealt with by the AIRC.
The University of Queensland sacked a senior IR academic because of its "brutal" strategy to downgrade teaching of the discipline, rather than because of his trade union activity or political beliefs, a tribunal has found.
The Fair Pay Commission could set different minimum wages according to industry sectors or geographical areas and may discount pay rises for any tax cuts in next month's federal Budget, AFPC chief Ian Harper said today.
The Fair Pay Commission will call for public submissions on its first minimum wage determination from May 1, with Commissioner Ian Harper today conceding that real wage cuts are a possibility, especially in an economic downturn.
CPI up 3% annually, after 0.9% quarterly rise; Industrial action appeal might go straight to High Court; AIRC orders MUA to halt industrial action on Woodside north west shelf project; New pre-employment psych test claimed to predict dishonest behaviour; and ABCC seminars to explain how to comply with the national construction code.
Amber Oswald - the 16-year-old Sydney juice bar worker who claimed her $99-a-week pay was cut to $59 under a proposed Work Choices AWA - will continue to have her pay and conditions determined by a "pre-reform" s170LK agreement that provided for penalty rates and an above-award rate of pay, following an undertaking given to the AIRC today.
