The AMWU will remain demarked out of Forstaff's Avalon aircraft maintenance facility in Victoria until at least mid-2006, after a full bench of the AIRC this morning rejected its appeal on the matter.
The Federal Government will next month introduce new legislation to safeguard current enterprise agreements post-Electrolux, plus its bills exempting small business from unfair dismissal laws and from making redundancy payments, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews announced this morning.
Workers at Pilkington's glass factory at Dandenong in Melbourne's east have voted up a new enterprise agreement that delivers a 12% pay increase over three years and locks in non-wage conditions for four years.
The ACTU has responded to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' sketch-map of the Howard Government's IR priorities with a warning that any reduction in the AIRC's role would be "incredibly short-sighted".
Research by acirrt has revealed the dove-tailing of the Federal Government's plans to both keep older employees working and to increase the percentage of workers operating outside the current workplace relations system.
The President of the AIRC, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has referred two Victorian construction industry agreements to a full bench of the Commission to determine whether provisions they contain fall foul of the High Court's Electrolux ruling.
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The AIRC will run a large deficit in the current financial year and faces greater losses in coming years that will compel cuts in the Commission's services from 2005-06 if the Federal Government doesn't provide more funding, according to its President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice.
