The AMWU, AWU and ETU have each been fined $100,000 and been put on four-year good behaviour bonds for breaching the s45D secondary boycotts provisions of the Trade Practices Act when they picketed at the Patricia Baleen gas processing plant in East Gippland, Victoria, in 2002.
In an s106 unfair contract ruling, the NSW IRC, in Court Session, has for the first time issued a permanent prohibition order to prevent a software engineer's former employer from slandering him, and awarded him $22,000 in damages for defamation already suffered.
An Indonesian maid-servant brought to Australia when she was 18 to perform domestic duties for a Sydney family has been awarded $95,000 for unpaid wages in an unfair contract ruling by the NSW IRC in Court Session.
High Court to decide whether employers obliged to provide work to reinstated employees; Safety net review ruling likely next week; AEU likely to accept Victorian Government's offer; ACT teachers to strike; AIRC reserves decision on terminating nurses' bargaining periods; Victorian common rule case on for directions on Monday; ACTU says Australia lagging on mother's participation in workforce; US employers using new "hire to hurt" tactic against competitors; Former HREOC president dies suddenly; and "Domestic necessity" justifies access to pro rata long service leave.
A mass meeting at BlueScope's Port Kembla steelworks in NSW's Illawarra region will at 7.30 this morning consider a return to work recommendation from the NSW IRC, after 3,500 workers went on indefinite strike yesterday morning over a protracted enterprising bargaining dispute.
A poultry worker has today failed to overturn a Federal Court ruling that his racial discrimination allegations against a female co-worker were an "invention" in response to a claim of sexual harassment she made against him, after lodging his appeal 20 days late.
Strippers to put case to AIRC in July; CPI slips to 2% a year but set to rise; HREOC publication reviews recent developments in workplace pregnancy and family responsibilities discrimination law; and bipartisan coalition calls for super reforms.
NSW Government agencies have mounted an assault on the NSW Labor Council's Secure Employment Test Case, saying its fetters on contracting out and use of temporary labour would render them uncompetitive by substantially increasing their costs and reducing their flexibility.
Mining employers claim Labor committed to "workable" non-union agreement stream; Employers and unions at odds over employee records protection; New paper on parliamentary super; Unfair contract claim by long-serving senior employee not a dismissal claim in disguise, says NSW IRC; High Court to hear special leave bid on whether employer required to provide work for reinstated worker; and NSW IRC in Court Session accepts first victim impact statements.
