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Bid to audit CEPU branch not in good faith

Former CEPU P&T NSW branch industrial officer Peter Jones has failed in his bid for an audit of the union, after the AIRC found he wasn't acting in good faith and that he had no grounds for suspecting a breach.

AIRC "disturbed" over Coles' editing of security footage

The AIRC has questioned why Coles Supermarkets Australia provided only a little more than half of 11 minutes of security video footage of a sacked checkout operator as evidence in an unfair dismissal case.

Media school employees win a day's paid cultural leave

Some 150 employees of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School have secured a day off each year for industry-related activities such as film festivals, plus a day of health and wellness leave, in their new certified agreement.

News in brief, May 19, 2005

Skilled labour shortage the biggest supply constraint in construction, says survey; Salary survey suggests pay pushing up; 84% of non-permanent employees believe they are truly casual, says ABS; More US employers outsourcing key HR functions; Smith attacks linking of water funding to IR practices; and Andrews sets out his objectives for changing agreement-making.

Higher education unions plan day of action

TAFE students and teachers will join their university counterparts on June 1 in a national day of protest, as the higher education unions fight Federal Government moves to link IR change to funding.

ACTU asks Howard frontbenchers to spend a day in award workers’ shoes

The ACTU has today invited the Howard Government’s ministers to spend a day in the shoes of its new workplace ambassadors, a group of award-dependent workers on wages of less than $60,000 a year who the peak body believes will bear the brunt of the second wave of IR change to be pushed through the Senate after July.


News in brief, May 18, 2005

No post-Budget national wage case hearing tomorrow; Qantas sacks Sydney baggage handler after cocaine smuggling investigation; and Workers become isolated as work moves outside the office.


Unfair dismissal claimant ordered to pay massive costs bill

The Queensland IRC has ordered an employee sacked for alleged misappropriation to pay $110,000 in costs, including indemnity costs, after finding she forced her former employer to incur "a huge amount" of costs but never intended to proceed with her unfair dismissal trial.