With protected action against three Victorian electricity distributors still suspended for another month, the AIRC will next week hear an application by a fourth company, AGL's electricity distribution arm Agility, to terminate the ETU, ASU and APESMA's bargaining periods.
In further examples of non-union collective deals failing to get certified because employees weren't properly notified of their right to be represented by a union, the AIRC has within a week knocked back two more agreements.
The Howard Government has conceded that its new laws outlawing age discrimination are aimed at encouraging attitudinal change rather than constraining business flexibility.
The Democrats have today rejected the Federal Government's plans to further reduce the scope of federal awards and to significantly curb unions' ability to take protected industrial action.
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.
