A Federal Court full bench has found an AIRC full bench wrongly reversed the reinstatement of 16 mineworkers selected for redundancy after a Rio Tinto subsidiary blacklisted them because they supported the coal mining union and opposed AWAs.
Strike continues at BlueScope Steel; SA public servants win interim pay rise; Maurice Blackburn Cashman merges with Whyburns Legal; and IEU NSW leader returned.
The fourth term Howard Government will be in a powerful position to advance its IR agenda in the Senate from next July, but it shouldn't assume it will automatically win the support of the crucial new Family First senator.
The AIRC has criticised the South Australian Government for failing to seek relief over industrial action which was preventing the repair of traffic lights at major intersections.
Long wait likely for Victorian paramedics' pay rises; Top IR lawyer among new silks; Woolworths warns executives after restraint ruling; Pay rise for NSW judges, but linked pay questioned; and Survey finds cheapest labour in India.
Kodak pays out 15 weeks-plus to sacked workers; Employees free to hand-out how-to-vote-cards outside work; and Parental leave cannot be taken sporadically in the UK.
The NSW Court of Appeal has found a security company vicariously liable for a bouncer headbutting a hotel patron who refused to leave when asked to do so.
Woolworths' success in obtaining an injunction to prevent a former senior executive from moving to Franklins has reinforced employers' powers to restrain key staff.
