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Dismissal briefs, March 18, 2003

AIRC stays reinstatement of News Ltd schooner drinkers; SA Commission failed to provide reasons for excessive compensation, says bench; Costs order stayed despite "slim" appeal prospects; Excellent director "too busy" to properly dismiss worker; and SA IRC rejects claim 15 months out of time.

News in brief, March 18, 2003

Civil construction workers win 25% casual loading; CPSU seeks rule change to confirm Tenix coverage; Top employers perform better financially, says Hewitt; Unions prepare for campaign against Gulf War involvement; and NSW unions show off their treasures.


Refusal to work not abandonment of employment: IRC

The NSW IRC has awarded a senior consultant more than $25,000 in a s106 unfair contracts ruling, after finding that his employer had wrongly concluded that his refusal to return to work meant he had abandoned his employment.

Abbott report says commercial construction inefficient

Just a week ahead of the tabling in Parliament of the Cole Royal Commission's final report, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott has released a consultants' report that says labour productivity in commercial construction is lagging well behind that in the Australian residential construction sector.

How to hang on to the greying workforce

Resource sector employers need to start thinking about how they intend to manage the implications of a greying workforce, according to the Australian Mines and Metals Association.

New deal for Qantas's domestic flight attendants

Qantas and the FAAA's domestic and regional division have struck an in-principle deal that provides 2,400 flight attendants a 3%-a-year pay rise and a 6% lump sum payment, while unions are set to publish an open letter appealing to the airline to soften its hardline IR approach.

Abbott appeals rejection of Grocon deal, Grocon stays out of it

Victorian IR Minister, Rob Hulls, has attacked the decision by federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott to appeal against the AIRC's refusal to certify the non-union deal Grocon got up during its stand-off last year with the CFMEU.

Transferred firefighter wins mortgage break-costs

A transferred NSW firefighter has won his claim for mortgage break-cost fees, in a state IRC decision that applies to all NSW public sector employees whose travel entitlements are covered by the general travel compensation award.

Australian workers at Pine Gap want equal pay with US colleagues

In the shadow of the looming war with Iraq, Australian employees of a US-based contractor at the remote Pine Gap joint defence facility are battling – so far unsuccessfully - to convince it that they are worth the same as the American citizens they are working beside.