CPSU national president Matthew Reynolds died suddenly last night of a brain aneurism, just hours after the close of the ballot that saw him re-elected.
In a ruling handed down on Tuesday, the NSW IRC has stymied last year's amendments to the State's s106 unfair contracts jurisdiction that tried to constrain claims.
The MUA and AWU have formed an alliance to end demarks and jointly recruit members and negotiate enterprise agreements in the offshore oil and gas industry.
Discipline for excessive sick leave discriminatory, says tribunal; Racial abuse sacking harsh but lodged out of time; Tribunal rejects discrimination claim by speech-impaired teacher; and AIRC dismisses four-year-old claim by perjured BHP officer.
Employee survey results had led to "fundamental change" in Westpac's approach to remuneration, training and communication, the bank's head of employment policy told yesterday's AHRI conference.
Substantial award pay increases, particularly for NSW Government workers, have pushed growth in public sector hourly wage rates excluding bonuses for the March quarter to 1.7% and a record 4% for the year, according to the ABS.
Smart corporates such as online stockbroker Charles Schwab use redundancies as a last resort and view their workers as assets rather than costs, a keynote speaker told AHRI's national convention yesterday.
The AIRC has substantially upgraded its electronic lodgement system, allowing registered users to submit documents more easily and to pay unfair dismissal filing fees via a secure payments facility.
