itsubishi Motors Australia's newly-certified enterprise agreement provides capacity for the company and unions to negotiate an enhanced severance package for almost 700 workers who will be made redundant when the company closes its Adelaide engine plant next year.
A proposed multi-business agreement to cover 99 Subway outlets is being further considered by the AIRC, after parties yesterday provided further information in a last-ditch bid to have it certified.
NSW's secure employment test case expected to wind up in December; Federal Labor writes to big business to clarify IR policy; and Tasmania to review IR Act.
The battle between the coal mining union and Rio Tinto over 16 workers dismissed in 1998 from the Blair Athol open cut in Queensland is effectively over, after an AIRC full bench today found 13 were fit to work at another of the company's mines nearby.
Labour hire company Forstaff has lost a bid to win back $4m in payroll tax it paid to the NSW Government, after a court found the company was the employer of the workers it placed with host employers.
Employers in the two largest states face more stringent regulation if they intend to electronically monitor their employees, with draft legislation being considered in NSW and options for stronger laws being canvassed in Victoria.
The WA IRC has issued enterprise orders under the Gallop Government's IR Act to resolve a bargaining dispute between the State Public Transport Authority and the RTBU (locomotive division).
With the federal election looming, Shadow Minister for Workplace Relations, Craig Emerson, has accused the Government of misrepresenting the ALP's IR policies.
The AMWU is continuing its long-running bid to get up an agreement covering workers at Victorian food processing company Fyna Foods, but it has dropped its transmission of business arguments after the AIRC declined to deal with them on jurisdictional grounds.
A new two-year deal wrapped up early between pharmaceutical products company CSL and six unions gives employees their pay rises early and provides some improved family-friendly measures, including allowing all accrued sick leave to be taken for family leave purposes.
