In an important decision, the AIRC has recognised Smorgon Steel's influence on the employment security of workers involved in the long-running labour hire bargaining battle at its site, and has found a dispute exists between it and the CEPU (electrical division).
Just weeks ahead of Virgin Blue's float, the Institute of Public Affairs has found the Qantas agreement for customer service and administrative employees provides fewer restrictive work practices and limits on managerial prerogative than a similar Virgin deal.
The ACTU will seek a $26.60-a-week wage rise next year for Australia's 1.6 million award workers, the secretary of the peak union body, Greg Combet, announced today.
A Federal Court full bench has found a cleaner to be an employee of a cleaning company, despite the company moving the worker to a labour hire company that engaged him under a purported Odco-style independent contracting arrangement.
BHP Billiton has defended its right to make AWAs a condition of employment in the Pilbara, despite a letter from the UN which the CFMEU (mining & energy division) maintains backs its claim that the company is breaching its international obligations.
Transport industry employers plan to vigorously oppose the TWU (NSW branch's) ambitious protection of entitlements test case claim, which it lodged in the NSW IRC this week.
A union strategy to win outstanding entitlements for former Woodlawn miners is in tatters, after a court halted a development that was to fund the payout.
HREOC is urging employers to do more to prevent sexual harassment of women in the workplace, after a review of complaints confirmed it persisted as the dominant form of reported sexual discrimination, despite being outlawed for almost 20 years.
Large increases in the NSW public sector this year have led to a big rise in national public sector pay growth to 1.6% in the September quarter and 4.7% over 12 months, according to the ABS Wage Cost Index, released today.
Nine months after reaching agreement in-principle, the Bracks and Howard governments have finally settled the terms for moving all Victorian workers to the federal award safety net.
