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.
Austrade is trying to convince the AIRC its old agreement can be terminated without disadvantaging senior executive employees who are excluded from its current agreement, certified late last year.
A US study of 41 large companies with advanced recruitment practices has shown that they acquire more than 60% of their new full-time employees via the internet and employee referrals and that these channels are continuing to grow.
Low income workers dependent on the federal minimum wage need a pay rise of between $67 and $180 a week to achieve a reasonable standard of living, according to a university study commissioned by the ACTU to back its 2004 Living Wage claim.
In a pacesetting deal for local government, some 134 employees of Alice Springs Town Council have won 14 weeks paid maternity leave under the terms of a new agreement struck with the ASU and the LHMU.
The FSU will meet with the Bank of Queensland in early February to continue discussions on a proposed new agreement to cover around 400 network and clerical employees, with pay increases of 5.5% a year and a "reasonable span of hours" set to be key union demands.
