A newly-certified agreement between superannuation administrator Superpartners and the FSU has given the company's 650 employees 10 weeks paid maternity leave and a 4% a year pay rise.
After 18 months of fruitless bargaining negotiations, gas and electricity distributor AlintaGas has applied to terminate an expired agreement struck with the ASU.
The Australian Education Union's WA branch executive has endorsed a proposed agreement which would give 14,000 teachers and administrators in State schools pay rises of 4% to 5% a year and appease concerns over class sizes and working conditions.
In an important decision on joint employment, a full bench of the WA IRC has found that a company that went into voluntary liquidation was not the employer of a dismissed national manager.
About 3000 workers at Bluescope Steel's Port Kembla, NSW steelworks have rejected the company's offer in the latest bargaining round, because it was conditional on maintaining a no dumping of iron clause and, according to the AWU, failed to properly address issues such as job security and entitlements.
In the first test of the pioneering casual conversion clause in the SA Clerks Award, the State IRC has ruled a labour hire employer unreasonably refused permanency to two regular casual workers.
A 52-year-old man who was unsuccessful in five separate job applications at Sydney University has been allowed to proceed with his age and sex discrimination claim.
Opposition Leader Mark Latham has opened the Labor Party's national conference in Sydney today with a promise to improve the rights of working parents and restore cooperation in workplaces, ahead of tomorrow afternoon's debate on IR policy.
