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One million Australians working unpaid overtime: ABS

Union members are much more likely to have fixed start and finish times, RDOs and perform shift work, while almost a million employees are regularly working unpaid overtime - just short of the number paid for overtime, according to a new ABS survey.

AIRC at odds over what constitutes proper service

An AIRC member has today found that notices of intended industrial action can be properly served by fax, after another member decided last month that they must be served personally or by registered post.




Maternity leave up at weather bureau

The Bureau of Meteorology has boosted its paid maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks and allowed partners to take up to a week of their personal leave after the birth of a baby, under a new enterprise agreement.


AFL employee challenges redundancy

The former personal assistant to the Australian Football League's talent manager is pursuing an unfair dismissal claim, after discovering that her redundant position was being re-advertised in what she says is almost identical terms to the job she used to perform.

Pilbara strategy succeeds for Rio Tinto and AWU

The AWU and Rio Tinto have won conditional approval for their Pilbara consent award that shuts out other mining unions, after an AIRC full bench today threw out a bid for industrial regulation to be determined by the WA IRC.