Despite union assertions that workers at a BHPB iron ore mine in the Pilbara are set to become the first to defeat an individual contract push in WA mining, the principal operating contractor at the site believes the mine will end up with both AWAs and a collective deal.
The FAAA and Qantas have agreed not to enforce provisions in their certified agreement requiring flight attendants to donate a day's annual leave to a leave bank after the OEA maintained it discriminated against non-union employees.
The AWU - which made a formal submission opposing the acquisition of Adelaide Brighton Ltd by Boral Ltd - has today welcomed the ACCC's decision to block the merger.
Holden Ltd's introduction of 14 weeks paid maternity leave has had a dramatic effect on mothers' return to work rates - lifting them from 65% to 100%, according to the company's HR director.
The AIRC full bench's interpretation of "industrial action" in yesterday's decision on redundancies at The Age could constrain the strategic use of s127 orders by unions to enforce agreements and awards, according to Flinders University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart.
The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has awarded $2500 in damages to a waitress who was sexually harassed when her employer asked her about her bra size and made other offensive comments.
The Federal Budget has provided more than $30m a year to set up the Australian Building & Construction Commission, while it has also funded a universal maternity payment of $3000 that will grow to $5000 in 2008.
The AMWU and CEPU are considering a High Court appeal of this afternoon's AIRC full bench ruling which cleared the way for Fairfax, publishers of Melbourne's The Age newspaper, to make workers at the company's Spencer Street printing facility redundant.
Former magazine and newspaper editor and publisher Ita Buttrose told the AHRI conference today in Melbourne that the 40,000 childcare places rumoured to be offered in tomorrow's Budget fell well short of what was needed and urged working mothers to forget packaging a car in their salary - push for a nanny or mothercraft nurse instead, she urged.
