The AIRC has certified an agreement covering Salmat call centre employees that failed the no disadvantage test, after accepting undertakings from the employer.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) today won the latest round in its five-year battle with Rio Tinto over the fate of the 16 former Blair Athol workers, with a full bench of the Federal Court rejecting the company's application for a stay of the AIRC order that they be given preference of employment at the nearby Hail Creek mine.
The AIRC President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, will refer all union and employer applications in the work and family test case to the same full bench – except, for now at least, those covering the construction industry.
The LHMU has applied for the pay and conditions of dental assistants to be raised considerably because their work has been undervalued on a gender basis, in what will be the first test of the State's new equal remuneration principle.
The seven-member AIRC national wage full bench will begin hearing the ACTU's claim for a $26.60 weekly increase in the award safety net on March 22 next year.
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.
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.
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