The National Australia Bank, the next cab off the big bank bargaining rank after the CBA, has told the FSU it wants to negotiate a short-term agreement expiring in the middle of next year.
Some 450 workers at Esso's gas and oil production facilities in Gippsland and the Bass Strait are voting on a deal delivering a 13% increase over 30 months.
Joy Manufacturing will on Friday ask the IRC to terminate the enterprise agreement covering its Moss Vale site in NSW, with a weekend compulsory conference before the IRC failing to bring the parties any closer to resolving their four-month strike/lockout.
A waitress who suffered suicidal depression after she was sexually harassed by her employer has been awarded $35,000 compensation by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission.