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.
AIRC Vice President Michael Lawler has defended the AIRC and its President against recent claims that it was partisan and deliberately expanding its turf to overcome the restraints imposed by the Workplace Relations Act.
Federal Labor has today clarified how the AIRC's new powers to arbitrate "intractable" bargaining disputes would operate if a Latham Government was elected.
WA IRC to hear redundancy test case in November; Tribunal rejects staffing reduction at coal loader; and Law Society launches bullying prevention CD ROM.
The Supreme Court of Victoria has dismissed claims by anti-logging protesters that they were falsely imprisoned by the CFMEU (forestry division) and logging workers during a confrontation in the Otways rainforest in early 1999, but has awarded the protesters more than $130,000 damages for their more minor claims.
