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Smith takes on shadow workplace relations portfolio

Stephen Smith is Federal Labor's new Shadow IR minister, while new frontbencher Tanya Plibersek is taking on the newly-created position of work and family spokesperson, as the Opposition faces a barrage of IR legislation from the Howard Government.

Threshold for small business dismissal exemption too high: McCallum

The proposed 20-employee threshold for exempting small businesses from federal unfair dismissal laws is too high and five employees would be a more appropriate limit, while Electrolux shows the High Court has lost its understanding of labour law, according to Sydney University Dean of Law Ron McCallum.

Munro labels Electrolux High Court bench "blind assassins"

The "so-called" black letter lawyers in the High Court's Electrolux majority took a misdirected, unbalanced activist approach that amounted to them acting like a "blind assassin", according to former senior AIRC member Paul Munro.

Talk to the ACTU: Hawke plea to Howard

The former ALP Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, has made a "genuine plea" to the Howard Government to reconsider what "appears to be its intention" to take Australia down a more confrontationist and less socially cohesive road.

Matters pertain: Win for unions in post-Electrolux case

In the decision IR practitioners have been sweating on, the AIRC has rejected employer-group arguments that a raft of provisions in a comprehensive NUW agreement do not pertain to the employment relationship, allowing clauses covering a prohibition on offering AWAs, site rates for casual labour hire workers, union right of entry, trade union training leave, and paid leave for union delegates.

Andrews reveals IR priorities

The Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, this morning began sketching out a road-map for the coming IR changes, making it clear that the AIRC's role, independent contractors' legislation and a unitary unfair dismissal system were high on the Howard Government's fourth term agenda.



News in brief, October 21, 2004

Qantas ready to deal with flight attendants' "sick out", Dixon tells AGM; Partial annual leave cash-out OK, says Queensland IRC; Union organiser fails in unfair dismissal bid; and AIRC certifies deal after finding trade union training leave and contractor clauses pertain to the employment relationship.

Woolclassers win casual/base rate catch-up

Woolclassers have won a phased-in increase in their casual loading from 20% to 25% and have caught up on missed safety-net increases following a variation to their federal award by a full bench of the AIRC.