The AIRC has certified an agreement between the AWU and a Queensland formwork company, after at first rejecting it when it emerged one of four workers covered hadn't seen the deal, and that none had voted on it.
The Howard Government's 2005 Budget has paved the way for the transition to the construction watchdog recommended by the $65m Cole Royal Commission, with an increase in funding for the Building Industry Taskforce from $9m a year to $23m.
Employers will have to be wary when advertising commission-only jobs, after Wizard Home Loans yesterday conceded it had engaged in misleading conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act when it made representations to a mobile lending manager that he would earn far more than he ended up taking home.
The NSW public hospital nurses strike threatened for tomorrow is off, after both the State Government and the NSW Nurses Association agreed to put their pay dispute in the NSW IRC's hands.
With superannuation fund choice only two months away, ACTU secretary Greg Combet has called on the Howard Government to introduce three key changes to improve protection for workers' retirement incomes.
The Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, has described it as "not beyond the realm of possibility" that other states would follow Victoria and refer their IR powers to the Commonwealth if the Government relied on the corporations power to introduce its IR agenda.
VCAT says manager didn't discriminate when he said liked women lighter than 50kg; $45,000 payout to employee one of 179 sex discrimination settlements during 2003-04, says HREOC; and Goward to address age discrimination seminar next Monday.
Industrial Registrar goes public to correct the record; ABC appeals Barakat ruling; Della positive about prospects of High Court challenge; Telework inquiry submissions close May 27; NSW TAFE teachers to rally in August against plans to link AWAs with funding.
The trustee of the Victoria Construction Industry Long Service Leave Fund (CoINVEST) has failed in its bid to win leave to appeal against the certification of a non-union agreement that takes the employer - and its employees - out of the sector's State long service leave scheme.
Tasmania's Supreme Court has rejected a sex discrimination claim by a social worker who breached her employer's self-disclosure policy by insisting that she tell all clients upfront that she was a lesbian and a sex worker.
