Qantas has won an interim s127 order to prevent further industrial action by Transport Workers' Union ramp workers who walked off the job last week in protest over payroll problems.
Gallop Government establishes pay equity unit; SA IR reforms take effect May 16; Club justified in sacking bar worker who failed to bundy off; Better bargaining legislation might be impotent against "go early" strategies; and ACCI calls for debate on national OHS regime.
Unions at Toyota have won four years of shelter from the Howard Government's looming second wave of IR change, after striking an in-principle deal that provides an 18% pay rise, plus extra employer superannuation contributions and up to 3% in bonuses.
The Building Industry Taskforce's prosecution of an employer for paying $300 in strike pay to each of four employees was "much ado about nothing" and the contravention of the law was so minor no penalty was warranted, the Federal Court has found today.
As foreshadowed by Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, a fortnight ago, the Federal Government will reintroduce later this year its defeated plan to link more than $300 million of higher education funding to IR change.
A long-running battle by IBM GSA and EDS Australia against the CPSU's efforts to follow IT workers whose jobs were outsourced by Telstra ended today in the Federal Court.
A Queensland IRC full bench will next week begin considering whether a large attraction and retention payment to a power company’s predominantly male technical workforce - while clerical workers get a lower increase – contravenes the State's gender pay equity principles and renders the deal ineligible for certification.
A State IR Ministers' special meeting planned for tomorrow will go ahead but without all Ministers attending or represented, after Federal Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews convened a federal-state meeting for next month.
