Some 80,000 teachers in NSW government and non-government schools are threatening coordinated industrial action during next school term if the NSW Government doesn't reconfigure its 16% over four years pay offer.
More than 100 "breakaway" metals companies, employing more than 10,000 workers, have accepted the MTFU's invitation to develop a negotiating framework for Campaign 2000 in Melbourne on March 31, according to AMWU Victorian metals and engineering division assistant secretary Craig Johnston.
The meat union will tell a Federal Court full bench on May 12 that Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger got it wrong when he used the federal industry award rather than a 1992 agreement as the no disadvantage test benchmark for AWAs at a Victorian meatworks.
Settlement of a deal with the 11 or so members of the Victorian construction industry's breakout group appears imminent, but the CFMEU is still working on its insurance policy, putting in place a new strategy to avoid arbitration under s170MX.
Unions and lift companies in Victoria have reached agreement in principle on a deal that will deliver the 350-400 employees in the industry a pay rise of 5% a year.
Employers might not agree with everything in CFMEU president Tony Maher's attack on the IRC, but some have little argument with his call for the Commission to be better resourced and provide speedier decisions.
An employee dismissed by Nestle Confectionery after alleged flirtatious, drunken behaviour at the company Christmas party, including revealing a tattoo near her groin, has been awarded $29,000 compensation after a senior member of the IRC ruled the company's disciplinary action went too far.
The CBA plans to reorient its pay structure in its proposed enterprise agreement, limiting the safety net increase for its 25,000 employees to 4% over two years and increasing the proportion of at-risk pay.
