The uncertainty surrounding the implementation of the High Court's Electrolux decision is set to linger on, after the AIRC announced this afternoon that the Merkon Constructions test case had been halted.
The ACTU will seek a $26.60-a-week wage rise next year for Australia's 1.6 million award workers - the same increase it pursued last year, the secretary of the peak union body, Greg Combet, announced today.
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Two directors who failed to ensure their workplace was free from bullying have had the fines against them increased from $2,000 to $21,000 by the NSW IRC, in a ruling that makes it clear that employers' OHS obligations extend to preventing intimidatory and violent behaviour at work.
Trevor Smith resigns as CFMEU national president; Name change for NSW Labor Council; Work and family test case expected to wind-up mid-December; and Electrolux deal derailed by Electrolux decision.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) will continue to prosecute individual mine managers and coal companies for health and safety breaches when government departments fail to do so, with delegates to the union's four-yearly national conference this week unanimously endorsing the approach.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) has won a dispute finding with three more coal industry contractors, with the AIRC rejecting arguments that the union was ineligible to represent the companies' employees.
The Federal Government will use its Senate majority to target the construction industry, announcing today that it will re-introduce its rejected Cole-based legislation into Parliament next year.
