In more fall-out from the latest Telstra bargaining round, the secretary of the CEPU's NSW postal and telecommunications branch, Jim Metcher, is seeking to have the union's national vice-president, Colin Cooper, investigated under union rules for his role in a dispute over when the telco giant's employees get their pay rises.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow yesterday described it as the "labour partnership back in town", as the union body's executive met in Sydney yesterday with Opposition Leader Mark Latham ahead of next week's federal budget and with the federal election looming.
In the first prosecution of its type in NSW, a company and its directors have been fined $26,000 for failing to ensure a workplace was free from bullying.
After just three days of hearings in the crucial NSW Secure Employment Test case, rumours are circulating that a deal is looking likely. NSW Labor Council, however, denies this, and maintains it is confident of winning the case and will see it through to the end.
A full bench of the AIRC has upheld an earlier finding that a labour hire firm was the employee of a woman dismissed from her job as a re-buyer for Coles Myer.
The Australian Federal Police has tonight won the ACCI/BCA Gold Work and Family Award for provisions such as emergency care and generous paid leave that have substantially improved the work-life balance of its workers, while slashing attrition rates.
In a case confirming that s106 unfair contracts legislation stretches beyond employment contracts, the NSW IRC (in Court Session) has ruled that the owner of a bus used in a Coca-Cola advertisement can proceed with a claim against a design company who failed to pay agreed rental and restoration charges.
Victoria's top court has overturned the Schou discrimination ruling and its record $161,000 damages payout, in an important decision on whether it is reasonable to require employees with family responsibilities to attend work.
The AIRC's national wage full bench today raised "serious doubts" about the reliability of evidence from Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews on the employment effects of minimum wage increases, in its decision to raise all award rates of pay by $19 a week.
The AIRC's national wage case full bench has today awarded a $19-a-week increase to all apply to all award rates. The increase is a new record, exceeding the $18 awarded in 2002.
