Football players boycott event to pressure employers; WA labour hire companies moving towards being covered by State metals award; OEA passes on $6,000 penalty payment to subcontractor threatened by Queensland BLF; and full bench refers bid to stop AIRC dealing with Hamersley award.
The AIRC has suspended a bargaining period at car parts supplier TI Automotive's Adelaide plant, after finding a strike planned for today and tomorrow and continuing overtime bans threatened significant damage to the welfare of more than 8,000 South Australian car industry workers.
Some 11,000 workers at BlueScope Steel Limited (formerly BHP Steel) will be eligible to apply for up to 200 free shares offered under a new share ownership plan announced as part of the company's yearly results last week.
Government counters attacks on Abbott; AIRC says "all or nothing" approach to sick leave provision not the best; Union rights clause prevents deal's certification despite links to other provisions; and UK think tank recommends workplace elder care.
The AIRC has terminated the bargaining period for teachers at Catholic schools in the Northern Territory, after finding that the parties' were unlikely to resolve a battle over workload regulation and revised dispute resolution processes.
Employers will have to be more careful to avoid unlawfully discriminating against employees because they are union members, after a Federal Court ruling substantially extended the definition of union membership under the WR Act's freedom of association provisions.
