Victorian postal union leader Joan Doyle has had her entry permit revoked, after the AIRC found she had entered an Australia Post mail centre and incited workers to walk off the job and acted improperly at other workplaces.
Federal Parliament on the weekend passed new laws beefing up the powers of the Building Industry Taskforce, but at the last minute dropped a provision that required unions to win authorisation from members before nominating delegates to a political party.
The Building Industry Taskforce has won new powers to force witnesses to give evidence and produce documents, after the House of Representatives yesterday passed amendments to the Codifying Contempt legislation in a special Saturday morning sitting.
Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger and DEWR deputy secretary John Lloyd have today been appointed to the AIRC as senior deputy presidents, while Australian Business Limited's Anna McPhee is the new head of the equal opportunity agency.
There have been some significant internal developments within the AMWU, with the national council taking more steps to keep Craig Johnston out, national secretary Doug Cameron getting a $360,000 union loan to help buy his safe house, a national conference looming - and a wedding for Victorian branch secretary, Dave Oliver.
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.
