The Federal Government has made more than 40 changes to its draft Cole-based IR package for the construction industry, which are contained in the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Bill 2003 introduced into Parliament this morning by Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has introduced a bill today that allows third parties affected by industrial action to seek termination of a bargaining period, bans industrial action during the life of an agreement and enables the AIRC to order cooling-off periods. He has also re-introduced the crucial Termination of Employment Bill.
Cole legislation to be introduced tomorrow along with two more workplace bills; $500 fine for CFMEU official; and CSL intervention costs Federal Government $110,000.
The federal equal opportunity agency is about to begin a campaign to identify large organisations that haven't yet registered to report on their programs to promote a fair go for women at work.
CFMEU construction and general division secretary John Sutton has avoided compulsory removal from office, after a court yesterday accepted his guilty plea on two criminal charges of malicious damage but decided against convicting him.
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock will by early December introduce legislation amending the Disability Discrimination Act to make it lawful for employers to discriminate against drug addicts.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews plans this month to introduce his legislation to provide federal award coverage to hundreds of thousands of Victorian workers, despite failing to reach agreement with the Bracks Government on the terms of the deal.
A CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch organiser has been imprisoned for three months for perjury, after a court convicted him for giving false evidence to the Cole Royal Commission into the building and construction industry last year.
CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch organiser John Setka will appeal against today's finding by the Melbourne Magistrates Court that he was guilty of the criminal offence of threatening or intimidating a Grocon manager who was to give evidence in the AIRC.
Victoria's two-tier system of employment conditions is set to come to an end, after Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews announced he would accept the referral of the common rule award-making power from the State.
