A Queensland company is appealing to the State's Court of Appeal to halt the first test of the Qld IR Act's controversial provisions to deem contractors as employees.
In a new union strategy to boost recruitment, the fourth biggest job agency in the Federal Government's Job Network, Jobfutures, will earn a $25 fee from NSW unions every time it places an employee in a job and signs them up as a union member.
AMWU Victorian branch metals division secretary Craig Johnston remains determined to win an industry-wide settlement after the AIG's rejection of the MTFU's pattern bargaining claim.
GST-linked "inflation clauses" are absent from all but one of seventeen Federal enterprise agreements covering 500 employees or more that were registered in the final quarter of 1999.
Ford Australia will take 12-18 months to introduce the company's global initiative to offer employees a PC, colour inkjet printer and Internet access at home for just $US5 a month.
In one of the most important rulings since the introduction of the Workplace Relations Act in 1996, the Federal Court has found it might be unlawful for employers to make employees who decline individual contracts worse off than their colleagues who accept the arrangements.
Unions objecting to the registration of the "new BLF" have won the chance to view the membership records and other key documents of the nascent construction union.
