A full bench of the AIRC has certified a multi-business agreement between McDonald's and the SDA for the food chain's WA franchises, finding nothing objectionable in a union encouragement clause similar to others knocked out previously by the Commission.
One in four Victorians are low paid workers earning less than $13 an hour, a proportion that has remained unchanged since 2000, according to a new Victorian Government study.
An increase in apprentices is the Victorian branch of the ETU's priority claim in its latest bargaining round with the state's electricity distributors, which it will back up with industrial action beginning next week.
Sydney University and the CPSU-SPSF and the NTEU have finalised a deal that will deliver 2,000 non-academic employees a pay rise of 18% over 42 months, a $1,000 sign-on bonus, casual conversion rights and a pacesetting paid maternity leave entitlement.
A s170LK agreement the AIRC has refused to certify has highlighted the scrutiny non-union agreements face in the Commission as it seeks to assess whether they pass the no disadvantage test.
Labor has amended its IR policy platform to include imposing time limits on the AIRC's determination of unfair dismissal claims and giving preference to suppliers who comply with its IR policies.
A cleaner whose employer exploited her financial dependence on her job to support her family by subjecting her to ongoing sexual harassment has been awarded $20,750 by the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.
The AIRC has allowed the AMWU to represent workers at labour hire company Forstaff's Avalon Airport aircraft maintenance facility, but from mid-2006, while the union has conceded it followed the MUA's lead and set up a company entity to overcome its lack of coverage at the site.
Sydney University Dean of Law Ron McCallum has told a Senate committee hearing that the Cole Bill was unbalanced, too prescriptive and excessively focussed on enterprise bargaining by single businesses.
