Mining employers revive "fighting fund" concept; Public transport not an essential service: FWA; He's back: Hanke returns as HR Nicholls Society's PR director; Police prosecutors add support to police officer's industrial action; and Aged care redundancies lead to FWA dispute hearing.
New laws to fetter the NSW IRC's power to set state public sector wages are set to be passed by NSW Parliament, after the O'Farrell Government on the weekend gagged a marathon debate and forced its legislative changes through the Upper House.
Victorian Police have voted overwhelmingly to undertake protected industrial action from next Tuesday, while in NSW, unions have released new pay research as they seek to head off plans to cap state public sector pay growth at 2.5% a year.
Fair Work Australia will tomorrow seek to hold discussions between the CPSU and the Australian Public Service Commission, after the tribunal today conducted a hearing into the bargaining dispute between the union and major APS agencies.
A Serco subsidiary that contracted to the Victorian Government was justified in summarily dismissing a mobile speed camera operator who drove at more than twice the speed limit and at up to 123kmh in 100 zones, Fair Work Australia has found.
Three hundred employees at a Victorian private prison will receive an additional pay rise if their personal leave over 12 months is collectively lower than 95 hours per capita, under a deal struck with the CPSU Victoria which has been overwhelmingly voted up.
Fair Work Australia has this afternoon approved an AIPA application to seek authorisation from Qantas long haul pilots to take industrial action that could begin in July.
MUA declines Patrick invitation for FWA to resolve remaining claims; CFMEU wins $5000 penalty against Abigroup; and Searle takes seat in NSW Upper House.
Patrick has notified its container terminal employees that it won't pay them or allow them to perform work while they participate in week-long partial work bans that begin today and tomorrow, while Qantas long-haul pilots have today applied for a ballot to authorise industrial action, and FWA has granted the ballot order sought by licensed aircraft mechanical engineers.
A Victorian tribunal has renewed three-year race discrimination exemptions for two companies that must comply with restrictive United States export laws because of their contracts to supply the US military, after hearing that only 10 people since 2007 had been affected by the existing exemptions.
