Coal mining unions will embark on a new bargaining strategy in the next round of enterprise agreement negotiations with BHP Coal, abandoning their old pit-by-pit approach in favour of a company-wide pattern bargain.
The IRC is likely to revert to taking a more active role in dispute resolution, and parties to enterprise agreements will pay more attention to the wording of dispute resolution clauses, following a decision by a five-member full bench.
A quarter of a million Queensland workers perform unpaid overtime, but only 38% of them get an allowance or time off in lieu to compensate them, according to a new ABS survey.
Employers engaging in protected AWA industrial action - such as lockouts - against employees are immune from the statutory ban on applying duress to employees, the Federal Court has ruled.
Two employees who refused offers of alternative employment when their employer merged with another company have failed to convince the NSW IRC that they were unfairly dismissed.
In an important victory for the future of industry superannuation funds, a full bench of the IRC has ruled that building awards can specify which funds employers have to contribute to for non-union as well as union workers.
In a landmark ruling on casual employment, a Federal Court full bench has found two regularly-rostered workers to be casuals because they were engaged on that basis.
The LHMU has used the Workplace Relations Act's anti-coercion provisions to win an interlocutory injunction restraining Coca-Cola Amatil from contracting out up to 50 jobs at its Clayton warehouse in Melbourne.
