Five years after Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Coal dismissed them, the AIRC has today ruled that 16 former Blair Athol mineworkers in central Queensland be given preference of employment at the company's new Hail Creek operation nearby.
Unions and fund managers meet over super strategies; Kodak stoppage over job cuts; RTBU and Pacific National meet tomorrow; and Work and family application mention.
The MBA has called on the Federal Government to urgently legislate to end right of entry uncertainty in the wake of yesterday's AIRC decision in the Boral case.
The TWU (NSW branch) has issued a public apology to Allied Express in settlement of a Supreme Court defamation action the transport company launched over union media comments in the lead-up to Christmas 2001.
An AIRC full bench ruling handed down today makes it clear that unions can't rely on their state entry rights to have discussions with federal award and agreement workers for whom they don't have coverage.
Income inequality has increased during the Howard Government's term, with low-income households' share of the pie falling and high-income households' share rising, according to new ABS data.
Inflation fell to zero in the June quarter, while annual inflation dropped to just 2.7% a year, according to the ABS, which released its Consumer Price Index today.
ACI workers go out nationally in solidarity action; Pilbara enterprise orders bid adjourned for fortnight; Fresh elections averted after court validates CEPU rule change; and deadline looming for Queensland State Wage Case.
The proposed new Pilbara consent award struck by the AWU and Rio Tinto provides for non-AWA workers to move to parity of pay and conditions with their co-workers on individual contracts.
The Australian Federal Police has been ordered to apologise to a former employee for disability discrimination, after it failed to present evidence of her major depressive illness to an internal review that was considering her future employment.
