Date set for bid to raise apprentice wages; Little common ground between Greens and Democrats on IR; Record number of AWAs lodged; Pump manufacturer reverses warnings issued over Hardie rally; and Directions hearing in SA redundancy test case.
Employer groups have been given until Friday to clarify their positions on some of the NUW's submissions in the KL Ballantyne matters pertaining case, which the parties agree is shaping up to be a test for the application of the High Court's Electrolux decision.
Corporations should implement affirmative action policies in the workplace, even if female employees are against it, ANZ chief executive John McFarlane said today.
Victorian union workers' compensation officers have had a victory in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in their bid to show that the State's WorkCover system is forcing workers to face lengthy delays and massive court costs in trying to win compensation claims.
An AIRC full bench has overturned an earlier Commission decision to reject a new redundancy provision in a key call centre award because it differed from the redundancy test case model clause relating to small businesses.
A detailed study of four hospitality industry workplaces with AWAs has found that organisational efficiencies were often gained at the expense of individual employees.
Qantas long-haul flight attendants claim the airline is training a replacement workforce ahead of their enterprise agreement expiring late this year, and will this week seek a finding from the AIRC that the training breaches the current deal.
Henry Walker Eltin's lockout of workers at short notice during the height of a dispute about the introduction of AWAs at BHP Billiton's giant Yandi iron ore mine in WA was lawful even though unions weren't aware of it beforehand, the Federal Court has found.
Just 210 EEAs approved in 2003-04, says WA Industrial Registrar; Top end of town calls for AGM changes to curb shareholder activism on workplace issues; Petrochemical industry retains capacity to manage, says IPA; Johnston to appeal imprisonment; and Men more likely than women to experience low-level sexual harassment, says study.
In its first consideration of decade-old legislative amendments allowing the use of special measures to achieve substantive gender equality, the Federal Court has thrown out a claim by a disgruntled ASU member that the union's affirmative action rules are unlawful.
