A new agreement has provided some 3,000 employees of revived retailer Harris Scarfe with their first pay rise since the company went into financial difficulties in early 2001.
The FSU will seek a s170LJ agreement in Adelaide with outsourced mortgage provider EDS Australia after an overwhelming majority of the company's 1000-plus employees voted down its non-union offer.
A new s170LK deal for the NT Government tourist agency provides a guaranteed pay increase of 3% a year to the 106 employees, plus performance bonuses of up to 5% annually.
A NSW tribunal has ruled that employers must consider changing the nature of a disabled worker's job if they intend to rely on the "inherent requirements of the job" defence for dismissing such a worker.
A mining company's refusal to allow an illiterate worker any union representation while counselling him prior to his dismissal was a breach of procedural fairness - even though the worker was on an AWA, the IRC has found.
Queensland police secure a new five-year deal, Crown casino clashes with LHMU over pay rise, and Telstra's infrastructure agreement considered for second time tomorrow.
