The CPSU has recommended a new agreement for about 18,000 civilian defence employees that increases paid parental leave and provides a 10% pay rise over 30 months.
The AIG, ACCI and MBA have called, in separate submissions to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews, for amendments to the draft Cole Bill, while Andrews says the Government is sticking to plans to introduce the legislation this year.
The NSW IRC has prevented a health service from dismissing a medical director until claims of harassment and misconduct have been heard, finding that a premature dismissal would cause "irreparable" damage to her reputation.
More than 700 employees at superannuation administrator Superpartners have voted up a new agreement with the FSU that provides 10 weeks paid maternity leave but withholds a portion of the leave until six months after return to work.
The CPSU says that while proposed changes to the Federal Government's public sector superannuation scheme moves risk from the employer to employees, workers at this stage don191t appear to be disadvantaged by the new model.
About 400 Victorian manufacturing workers have won new substantial paid parental leave provisions and annualised salaries in two deals at Smorgon Steel Mills and Wire Products.
The CPSU has finally succeeded in its long-running bid to follow about 500 workers whose jobs were outsourced by Telstra, with a full bench of the AIRC today finding a dispute existed between the union and EDS Australia and IBM GSA.
The ACTU says it will talk sensibly with Qantas over its plans to start up a low-cost domestic airline, but that unions won't accept an approach based solely on cutting pay and conditions.
