The PC is to deliver a report by late March next year on the productivity and labour supply implications of the ageing workforce, while the Federal Government has rejected the key recommendations of its report on OHS and workers compensation.
Victorian power distributor TXU was this morning seeking a s166A certificate over the mass sickie - caused by "24-hour ETU flu" according to the company and "lineitis" according to the union - staged by its maintenance workforce yesterday.
Teachers and support staff at the private Knox School in Melbourne's outer east have won a 14% pay rise over three years - well above the 12% over four years won recently by teachers in Victorian government schools.
South Australian bus drivers involved in a protracted bargaining dispute with a contractor to the State Government have won an 8% pay rise, increased minimum daily hours and free black shoes under an award arbitrated by the AIRC.
A Federal Court full bench has offered the company involved in a long-running unfair dismissal case by an unrepresented employee the chance to end the litigation for $13,000.
In a crucial decision, an AIRC full bench has found today that the landmark Cetin decision is no longer relevant and that regular and systematic casuals employed for less than a year can't claim unfair dismissal, unless there is a discrimination element to their case.
The NSW Teachers Federation has called off the stopwork meeting it planned for this Friday, in the wake of the Carr Government yesterday revealing in the State Budget that it would fully fund the 12% arbitrated pay rise awarded to teachers this month.
A five-member AIRC full bench has today refused a Master Builders Australia bid to expand the work and family test case to include its application to introduce part-time work in the construction sector.
