The Federal Budget provides $17m for 2003-04 for the Government's initial response to the Cole Royal Commission and $28m a year in incentives from 2005-06 for universities to abandon collective bargaining.
Process of state safety net flow-ons begins; Rare suppression order lifted by AIRC; and Tasmanian Premier surveys levels of physical activity in his State's workplaces.
The AIRC has certified a call centre agreement that provides lower pay rates for employees on commission than those on wages, after finding it still passed the no-disadvantage test because the relevant award prescribed no minimum rates.
A NSW IRC full bench has overruled a decision that rejected three out of time unfair dismissal claims, after finding that it incorrectly applied the legal maxim dealing with ignorance of the law.
A newly-certified agreement for Air New Zealand provides a pay rise of up to 6% and allows redundant workers to reject offers of alternative employment without losing their severance entitlement.
The AIRC today certified a greenfields agreement between ABC Paper and the TCFU to cover workers at a new processing plant in Sydney, despite the deal not yet containing a pay rise or key leave provisions.
Electrolux wins leave to appeal in High Court; Federal Court hears Emwest appeal today; New organisations laws take effect today; Hearings set down in redundancy and childcare test cases; Breakthrough in NZ paper dispute; and Lavery decision now available.
The NUW's former NSW branch secretary, the late Frank Belan, has failed in a Supreme Court bid to have his former assistant secretary pay half of a $200,000 defamation bill.
The AMWU is claiming a breakthrough in its Campaign 2003 bargaining round, saying the major maintenance companies in the power industry in Victoria have committed to a 36-hour week, a 13% wage increase, and the introduction of fixed term contracts rather than casual employment for specific project work.
The Federal Court has found today that the Commonwealth Bank might have breached s52 of the Trade Practices Act by engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct, but that the case against the bank faced significant obstacles when it goes to trial.
