In a new strategy to boost recruitment, the TWU will seek provisions in all state and federal enterprise agreements to oblige employers to notify the union of new starters and give it access to employee induction sessions.
In a significant development in the work and family test case, the ACTU and major employer groups are expected tomorrow to finalise the details of an agreement that would double to 10 days a year employees' access to paid sick leave for carers' leave purposes.
Conflict intensifies over what constitutes proper service of notices of intended industrial action; Former NSW nursing union officials pursue unfair contract claims; NSW teachers to stop work on June 25; and US Government report says Australian IR "highly centralised".
DEWR deputy secretary John Lloyd has won a Queen's Birthday Honour for his contributions to the Cole Royal Commission into the building and construction industry, while the NSW Labor Council's Ernie Razborsek, who died in July, has also been recognised.
The sacking of a NSW Government agency's HR manager has been declared void by the NSW IRC in Court Session because the internal inquiry which led to her dismissal failed to meet the requirements of public sector management legislation.
A Geelong teacher has failed to establish that she was directly or indirectly discriminated against by theVictorian Department of Education and Training when a transfer between schools did not proceed while she was on sick leave from her former school.
Cole inquiry seeks extension to June 21; Beattie Government gives $1.8m to Trade Union Education Fund; Victorian paramedics impose work bans; New paper on privacy implications of location detection systems; Howard Government appoints new Privacy Commissioner; Men need time off for family emergencies, says ACTU; ABS report tracks increase in child care usage over past decade; and Workplace Express "what's on" section updated.
The NTEU has used jurisdictional arguments to defeat a deal between Monash University and the CFMEU and CEPU which, it maintained, was struck as part of the university's "divide and rule" game.
The SA IRC has thwarted the State Government's bid to end via arbitration the long-running public sector bargaining dispute, refusing its application for a new award in favour of further talks and then a ballot.
Each employee costs an average of $42,600 a year to employers, though private sector employees are cheaper, at $40,100, according to ABS data released today.
