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The Mitcham Frankston motorway project joint venturers, in their agreements certified today by the AIRC, have won significant rostering flexibility that is not available under the Victorian construction industry pattern agreement, but unions say the company is paying for the increased flexibility.

Union checklist for skilled migrant workers; ACTU farewells Linda Rubenstein.

In its first full bench decision on matters pertaining since Electrolux, the AIRC has found a raft of provisions covering salary packaging, labour hire, jump-up rates, trade union training leave, union right of entry and union recognition pertain to the employment relationship, holding only two provisions - on payroll deduction of union dues and a recruitment-style right of entry clause - do not.

In a decision sure to make waves in Canberra, the AIRC has found the looming legislative removal of unfair dismissal rights and severance pay for small business employees is a reduction in conditions to be weighed up when considering whether a proposed agreement disadvantages employees.

Despite the Federal Government pressuring them to wait until its Cole bill is law, a group of Victorian builders has this morning reached an in-principle agreement with the CFMEU on a new three-year deal that the union will now seek to flow-on throughout the industry.

While the "permanent casual" remains a feature of the Australian workforce, the latest HILDA survey shows that for a large percentage of casual employees their status is transitional, with 42.2% moving on to non-casual employment within two years.

No deal yet on Melbourne motorway; FAAA says Australian Airlines refusing to bargain; Government launches research into health workforce productivity; Australia's advantages might outweigh the appeal of offshoring, says report; and IT group proposes 10am-3pm core work hours to reduce employees stress.

In an unusual unfair contract case, an Australian teacher claims she was sacked by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church after she alleged her daughter had been sexually abused by other church employees whilst working in Papua New Guinea.

The ACTU today officially launched the national campaign it has been foreshadowing to try to blunt the Federal Government’s IR agenda.

The Democrats have made it clear that they won't countenance support for the Government's legislation giving small businesses a blanket exemption from severance pay obligations. However, they are ready before they lose the Senate balance of power in July to widen the current grounds for excusing small employers from paying.