The ASU is seeking a 12% pay rise over two years, a 2% rise in employer super contributions and an increase in paid maternity leave from six to 14 weeks in a claim it has served on Qantas.
After months of negotiations, an in-principle agreement reached between the CFMEU (mining & energy division) and the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance for the company's eight central Queensland coal sites has been voted down by the rank and file.
The NSW Teachers Federation is preparing for a long battle with the State Government's over its proposed changes to public school employment - the sting-in-the-tail in its announcement yesterday that it was prepared to match Catholic school senior pay rates.
The Australian Customs Service struck the right balance between its operational needs and an employee's family needs when it offered him a compromise that would have avoided the need to move more than 1500km away from his children and estranged wife, the AIRC has found in an unfair dismissal ruling.
Deputy Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain is to replace Jonathan Hamberger as Employment Advocate, after his appointment to the AIRC last Friday, while AWAs have reached the half million mark seven years after they first became available.
The Coalition looks likely to be in a stronger position to push its IR agenda through the Senate if it is re-elected at the looming federal election, or to block Labor's agenda if PM John Howard loses the poll.
Expert panel recommends industrial manslaughter offence in NSW; US lagging on work and family, says report; No need for further regulation of executive pay, says BCA; NSW IRC to hear teachers' pay case in late August; Ansett administrator to start paying workers' entitlements again in 2005; and PC study to include review of secondary boycott provisions.
