PM John Howard has opened the campaign for the October 9 federal election with a claim that a Latham Labor Government would "hand back control" of IR to unions.
Work and family test case hearings delayed until September 1; High Court to consider granting special leave to appeal landmark Solution 6 unfair contracts ruling; Clarification of Adecco article; Lawler meant to refer to unfair dismissal jurisdiction; Redundancy payment implied term of contract, says WA IRC; and Former Crow falters at kick-off with long service leave claim.
Suncorp has boosted the guaranteed pay increase and reinstated the AIRC's power to arbitrate disputes in its s170LK agreement offer, following an FSU push to improve the deal.
IR institutions and labour law need to be reshaped to provide fairness, stability and justice for the workplace of the digital age, according to a US law professor who will be the keynote speaker at a national labour law conference next month.
Major contract call centre companies TeleTech, Salmat and SalesForce Australia are before a full bench of the AIRC this week opposing a union bid to rope them into the federal contract call centre award.
Some 4,000 Government bus drivers in NSW have won a 1.5% work value increase as part of a 13.5% pay boost over three years, plus new provisions to help them manage their work and family needs.
The Australian Industry Group has called on the AIRC to give greater emphasis to economic considerations and for the Federal Government to appoint a greater proportion of AIRC members with economic expertise, to ensure it has the necessary skills to decide the national wage case.
Labour hire company Adecco, one of Australia's largest private sector employers, has canvassed the idea of setting up a trust fund to allow casuals to accumulate leave entitlements.
Mitsubishi workers vote up redundancy package; Childcare tax taskforce wants survey participants; Increase in VCAT appeals, but quicker turnaround; Tenix lockout to end tomorrow.
In a long-running unfair dismissal case involving a chief engineer on a ship who was sacked for fighting, the AIRC has this time round found that there was a valid reason for his dismissal, but that it was unfair.
