While confusion has reigned on the issue, the latest statement coming out of the office of Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews makes it clear that the Government will strip back award entitlements that exceed its proposed new minimum conditions.
Victoria's car industry is returning to normal production today after more than 100 workers at Icon Automotive's Huntingdale plant last night voted to end a strike and support a rescue plan negotiated in the AIRC.
Uncertainty continues over how awards will be affected under the second wave IR changes, with the Federal Government facing claims that thousands of workers will lose entitlements to overtime and penalty rates.
Regulation has failed to keep pace with the 16% annual growth of labour hire since 1990, according to a parliamentary inquiry that has called for new guidance to curb long hours and ensure breaks and new measures to make it easier for on-hire workers to obtain loans and take holidays.
AIRC Senior Deputy President Jennifer Acton today resumed hearing a s127 application against industrial action by the LHMU, AMWU and NUW over employee entitlements at stricken car parts maker Icon Automotive.
The AIRC has knocked-out as not pertaining a labour hire provision in a foundry agreement and raised questions about whether a jump-up clause requiring site rates for labour hire workers also falls foul of Electrolux.
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A marathon unfair dismissal case involving a ship's engineer who was sacked for fighting appears to have ended yesterday in two failed appeals to an AIRC Full Bench.
A full bench of the Federal Court has upheld a vicarious liability finding against a Norfolk Island resort over the sexual harassment of one of its employees by another at employer-provided accommodation while both were off duty.
The FSU's long-running battle concerning the Commonwealth Bank shifting workers to new employment conditions in its subsidiary Commsec returned to court today.
