Democrats expecting dismissal bill debate in August; Cole exposure draft expected in July; NSW to expand adoption leave; and CEPU seeks to broaden call centre coverage.
The auto components dispute that was to set to provide the first test of new protected bargaining laws has been settled, with workers at Hella Australia yesterday afternoon voting up a pay offer of 15% over three years.
General secretary of the NUW, Greg Sword, has dismissed as "another attempt to stir up trouble" Workplace Relations Minister, Tony Abbott's referral to the Industrial Registrar of allegations of financial irregularities within the union's national office.
Workplace Relations Minister, Tony Abbott, has failed to convince the AIRC to review a decision refusing to certify a non-union deal that Grocon made during the height of its Victorian dispute with the CFMEU.
A new guide on monitoring of employees, issued this week by the UK's equivalent of our Privacy Commissioner, recommends employers conduct "impact assessments" to justify conducting it.
Smorgon Steel, which has had electrical maintenance at its Laverton North steel mill hampered by a 114-day strike in support of the Victorian ETU's 36-hour claim in labour hire, is preparing to pursue common law damages against the union and its officials.
A senior full bench of the South Australian IRC has found that bargaining agents' fees can be included in an enterprise agreement. But it's warned it may be discriminatory to set a fee level equivalent to a full year's union dues.
