The ASU's crucial work value/pay equity case for Victorian local government childcare workers that began in the AIRC this week could be resolved by conciliation.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott has asked the High Court to overturn last year's decision by a full bench of the AIRC to increase redundancy payments far above the test case standard in two public service awards.
The AMWU will tomorrow have to defend itself against another bid by the AiG to suspend or terminate a Campaign 2003 bargaining period - this time on the grounds that industrial action at an auto components plant is threatening to cause significant economic damage.
Third time lucky for Hungry Jack's; Commission approves deal despite incorrect award, procedural failures; AAT Kings guarantees six-monthly reviews to test no-disadvantage; and Pacific National talks enter final stages.
Banking group HSBC has survived a union-led shareholder revolt against a $62 million pay deal for a director, but nearly one in four shareholders refused to endorse the package.
Employers would be required to disclose "relevant financial information" - including executive salaries and perks - under Labor's planned good faith bargaining laws.
There could be a new player in HR recruitment within a year, after Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu today sold its Deloitte Re:sources recruitment business to US listed company Resources Connection.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott may have given up his ambitions to become Prime Minister when John Howard steps aside (eventually). But if the Government acts on Abbott's threat to call a double dissolution election next year, he could achieve a revolution in Australia's IR system.
Working parents would have the right to share a year's paid parental leave and fathers would get two weeks off on the birth of a child under a radical agenda for reforming work-life balance advocated by a leading labour market researcher.
The NUW is considering a High Court appeal against the AIRC's refusal to certify two s170LJ agreements, in what would be a test case on whether bargaining fee and union notification clauses pertain to the employment relationship.
