The CPSU has won an application to boost severance pay entitlements in two public service awards by as much as 40 weeks, after an IRC full bench found an anomaly between federal public sector awards.
A full bench of the Queensland IRC this week began hearing the Queensland Council of Union's application for a new redundancy standard that doubles severance pay to 16 weeks, extends entitlements to long-term casuals and removes the small business exemption.
In the final chapter in the Yallourn Energy battle that that led to blackouts in parts of Victoria, CFMEU workers have voted up a deal under which the company will outsource its La Trobe Valley mining operations to the Roche Thiess Linfox consortium.
Victorian police have interviewed suspended Victorian AMWU secretary Craig Johnston and the woman who has accused him of raping her, as turmoil continues to engulf the union's state branch.
The Queensland IRC has refused to reinstate a prison officer dismissed "essentially for swearing" because it found that his actions were unsafe in the volatile prison environment.
The NSW branch of the NUW has failed to topple its long-term rivals in the union's national office, with national secretary and ALP president Greg Sword claiming he has already won 80% of the vote on the second day of counting in internal elections.
