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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.

The LHMU is bucking the trend of falling union membership, with numbers going up 2% in the past year.

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.

A gaming room attendant forced by a Sydney hotel to wear a mini skirt to work has had her sex discrimination claim rejected, with the Federal Magistrate's Court finding that she was effectively arguing that her employer took advantage of her sexuality.

CPI up 2.4% annually, 0.7% in quarter; Recruitment company says employers failing to align job reality with employment “brand”; AIRC certifies Jetstar-ASU deal; Flight attendants voting on whether to re-consider Australian Airlines offer; and Ansett employees set to get 83.3% of what they’re owed.

Both employers and unions are claiming victory in today's WA redundancy test case decision, after the State IRC doubled the maximum severance payout to 16 weeks and ordered that it apply to all WA award and non-award employees, but refused to extend severance entitlements to small business employees.

An employer breached an AIRC reinstatement order when it put a worker back on the payroll but refused to provide him with work, the High Court has ruled today, in its keenly-awaited Blackadder judgment.

High Court to rule on whether reinstatement obliges employers to provide work; Railcorp deal pays 4% a year to 15,000 workers; Noticeboard and right of entry clauses don't pertain, says AIRC; Labour hire worker not a casual, says AIRC; and High Court makes another ruling on employer safety liability.