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Agreement guarantees job security at sugar mills

Employees of the NSW Sugar Milling Co-op have won a pay rise of 3.5% a year and been assured the introduction of new energy generation technology to the company's milling operations will not lead to job cuts, under the terms of an agreement certified yesterday.

NSW IRC majority follows appeal court ruling

A NSW IRC majority in the crucial Mitchforce case has avoided a clash with the State's Court of Appeal and followed its findings to ensure conformity.

Nurses union workers allege FOA breaches

Two former NSW Nurses Association employees are taking the union to the Federal Court, seeking their jobs back and penalties against the union, claiming it breached freedom of association laws by sacking them for running against the union's leadership in this year's election.

News in brief, December 16, 2003

Bakery allowed to cushion end of WAWAs by operating under substandard agreement; Staff to be sworn in as deputy president in February; NRMA patrol officers return to work; Increase of up to 7% a year at Perth Airport; and Best workplaces characterised by good working relationships: study.

Tristar reaches in-principle agreement with unions

Car components manufacturer Tristar - which was at the centre of a dispute that halted the nation's car manufacturing two years ago - has struck a new agreement with unions following industrial action that closed the company's Sydney plant for a total of 14 days over the past five months.

Reversal on post-maternity return to work

Employers who don't generally offer part-time or flexible employment are not obliged under federal anti-discrimination laws to allow full-time employees to return to work part-time after maternity leave, the Federal Magistrates Court has ruled today.

SA bus drivers call off strike

The AIRC has temporarily staved off industrial action by more than 500 bus drivers employed by Serco Australia, as the company considers a new proposal put forward by the TWU.

Wages up in private sector agreements

In a sign that wage pressure is building, growth in private sector enterprise agreements has hit a three-year high of 4.2% a year, according to the DEWR.


AHRI to be respondent to award

The country's leading unregistered representative body for HR practitioners faces being made respondent to a federal award that will bring its employees' conditions into line with tertiary education employment standards.