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BHP has shifted ground from its recent contracts-only position and offered Pilbara iron ore workers a five-year collective agreement that mirrors the conditions in its individual contracts.

An ILO committee of experts has confirmed its finding last year that key elements of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 breach ILO conventions.

Australian and international unions have launched a global campaign to encourage institutional investors to install more independent directors on the Rio Tinto board.

Outgoing ACTU president Jennie George has called for new restrictions on regular and "permanent" casual work, just days after Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith pronounced that there is "no casualisation crisis" in Australia .

Wage growth in enterprise agreements has eased again but with the GST on the horizon, wages are probably about to head upwards.

An IRC full bench has confirmed that sacked employees are entitled to claim damages for shock, humiliation and distress under the Workplace Relations Act, but found such compensation will only be available in "extraordinary" cases.

Rupert Murdoch's News Limited has introduced six weeks paid maternity leave throughout its Australian operations.

Defence Department employees have convincingly rejected a non-union enterprise agreement, after the CPSU urged a no vote on the basis that the 10.5% pay increase over three years wouldn't compensate workers sufficiently if the GST led to inflation blowing out.

After two years of hearings, an IRC full bench has reserved its decision in the s170MX arbitration between the CPSU and the Victorian Government.

The Community and Public Sector has lodged an appeal against a Federal Court ruling that found regularly-rostered employees at a Victorian prison were casuals.