Redundancy test case resumes in Melbourne today with AIG push for special insolvency consideration; No dirty deal at SCU, says CPSU; NSW Government might face asbestos disease payout; AIRC's Marsh to conciliate work and family case; Commission surviving curbs on its powers, says academic; and Qantas and unions in AIRC today over drug testing.
In a landmark ruling with major implications for Australian shipping, the High Court's seven-member bench has unanimously held that the AIRC has jurisdiction over foreign ships and crew carrying domestic cargo on the Australian coast.
More than 800 workers at Australia's largest brake manufacturer, PBR, have endorsed a new enterprise deal this week, averting planned industrial action and a secret ballot of employees scheduled for Friday.
Up to 700 employees at Southern Cross University are being urged to reject a proposed s170LJ enterprise agreement, amid claims from the NTEU that the university has refused to negotiate with it on the terms of the new deal.
In a ruling that underlines the need for employers to make every effort to accommodate female employees' requests to return to work part-time after maternity leave, a court has found a Federal agency unlawfully sexually discriminated against a manager when it insisted she resume full-time work.
NSW rail workers will be subject to random drug and alcohol tests under new regulations to be introduced by the end of the week, despite union claims that the new tests will not measure employees' actual impairment.
The AIRC has ruled that a salesman's dismissal for smoking marijuana at a work New Years Eve party was unfair because two other employees sharing the joint with him did not have their employment terminated.
The Queensland IRC has cleared a radio station of discrimination and victimisation claims, after finding that its requirement that an announcer take part in provocative promotions and work on Sunday were reasonable despite his religious beliefs.
The ACTU says the Howard Government is abandoning working families, after the Prime Minister backed away from work and family reforms, saying the current policy mix is "about right in providing effective choice for parents".
