A NSW IRC full bench has cleared the way for an employer body to argue that some clauses in ETU pattern agreements breach the Trade Practices Act, while the ACCC is also understood to be investigating the clauses.
NSW unions will push their trustees on super fund boards to use their influence to cap executive remuneration at $1.2m a year, after they released a university report today showing company performance declines when executive pay exceeds that level.
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.
