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ABCC targets Tasmanian electricians; Marles secures Corio preselection; and Ballard settlement to charity.

Work Choices has made IR regulation so complex that employers will increasingly spurn it and rely on HR policy to prescribe practices in the workplace, ACIRRT's John Buchanan told the weekend's HR Nicholls conference. And in a separate address to the conference, the MBAV said the next bargaining round is the chance to do non-union deals.

No bullying at ABC, AIRC finds; Settlement reached in Perth-to-Mandurah dismissal; US human rights report notes loss of industrial action rights in Australia; and Expect no more from Minchin, says Howard.

Qantas has announced today it will shut down its Boeing 747 heavy maintenance operation in Sydney by May, with 480 jobs there to go. It will retain the remainder of its wide-body aircraft heavy maintenance capacity in Australia for now, but require it to reach benchmarks against world’s best practice to be assured of its long-term future.

The States' challenge to the Federal Government's Work Choices legislation will now begin two days earlier than originally planned and will continue for a total of six days rather than five.

WA the fourth state to proceed with wage case; NSW introduces legislation to protect public sector workers, extend IRC powers; Qantas unions step up protest against maintenance outsourcing; Outrage at Minchin's promise of more IR change after 2007 election, but Howard rules out further major change; Leighton Kumagai workers return to the job; and CPSU survey of female members gets strong response.

Suncorp is re-engineering its recruitment systems and has now virtually dropped all print advertising for specific job roles.

NSW childcare workers have won pay rises averaging 16% in the NSW IRC's first specific pay equity case judgment.

Last year's campaigns against the introduction of non-union agreements at DEWR and the Pacific National freight rail operator have been recognised in the annual ACTU Awards presented at a function in Melbourne last night.

Hundreds of striking construction workers who have halted work on the underground section of the Perth-Mandurah railway project since February 24 will meet tomorrow morning to decide whether to return to the job.