More than four years after the expiry of their 2002-05 agreement, Virgin Blue cabin crew have voted up a new enterprise deal that delivers 3% annual pay rises, increases duty hours and creates new lower-paid entry-level positions.
Engineers refuse Virgin media "gag" bid as precondition for bargaining; FWA agrees not to transfer agreement to new employer; and Tribe hearing adjourned to December 18.
The meatworkers’ union, which is seeking a scope order so it can have a separate agreement for meat departments at Woolworths' supermarkets, has failed in a bid to win access to confidential notes made by negotiators during bargaining between the retailer and the SDA.
Minimum wage panel appointments at "advanced" stage, some Queensland IRC members to go federal; Rebel NUW members could have duty to union, says court; Employee fails in bargaining order bid; Coalition could block extension of Fair Work Act to foreign-owned ships; and Gillard commits to completing green skills review by March.
Some 69% of Fair Work agreements contain the model individual flexibility term and a further 10.5% contain a more flexible provision, DEEWR’s John Kovacic told a Senate Estimates hearing this evening.
The NUW's open-ended notice for protected four-hour strikes at CSL yesterday failed to specify when and where the action would occur or whether there would be single or consecutive stoppages, Fair Work Australia found yesterday in issuing a s418 order to halt the action.
An appeal panel of a NSW tribunal has canvassed the extent to which religious bodies are exempt from discrimination law, in a case involving a homosexual couple's claim against the Wesley Mission.
A union could fail to bargain in good faith, but nevertheless be genuinely trying to reach agreement, a Senior Fair Work Australia member has found in acceding to a TWU bid for a secret ballot to authorise industrial action.
