PM says IR change won't be against interests of workers; Skilled calls for licencing to boost labour hire companies' compliance with IR laws; Submissions due for parliamentary work/family and Cole Bill inquiries; and University wins discrimination exemption for indigenous-only jobs.
A Federal Court full bench has thrown out a complaint by the Navy's former director of psychology against being forced to retire at 65, saying he has exhausted all legitimate avenues to reverse it.
The AIRC has upheld an employer's zero tolerance for theft, in the case of a truck driver who was asked to resign after he took two magazines from a damaged pallet.
EOWA releases new pay equity tool in bid to close 15% gender-based pay gap; Desk and phone costs deducted from salesworkers' commission in bid to boost productivity; OEA website promotes AWAs to small business; Federal parliamentary library releases legislation digests on BCII and bargaining fee prohibition bills; AMWU says casuals seeking permanent conversion being intimidated; and Senior line managers should conduct performance reviews, says new book.
The AIRC has persevered with the compromise approach it adopted to "matters pertaining" before the High Court's Electrolux decision - an approach that employers and the Government can probably live with, according to Cutler Hughes & Harris solicitor, Ron Baragry.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has criticised the Coalition for seeking to rely on "the old reform agenda" of industrial relations, deregulation and privatisation for productivity gains - saying it is "largely exhausted".
Legally, it went to a full bench of the NSW IRC (in Court Session) and the state Court of Appeal. Industrially, it was settled yesterday in a fairly straight-forward conciliation session. And that, says the CFMEU (mining & energy division) of its dispute with Newcrest Mining, is the point.
The long-running WA nurses dispute that saw the ALP Government flagging a non-union agreement and the ANF lining up with the Liberal Party ended yesterday with an agreement that differs little to the one recommended by the AIRC last December.
The Federal Court will on July 25 and July 26 hear the coercion claims the Commonwealth Bank and its subsidiary Colonial Services have launched against the FSU over the industrial and shareholder campaigns the union ran in the lead-up to the bank's AGM in November last year.
