Pay rises of 3.9% to 4.3% a year under offer to Fairfax journalists; NSW teachers to consider industrial action; AIRC's Jim Simmonds retire; O’Neil appointed TCFU national secretary; and ASU members to commence rolling stoppages at IBM.
The CPSU has asked the AIRC to prescribe good faith bargaining rules for the public sector, saying that numerous federal agencies - including the DEEWR - are failing to comply with new requirements to give employees the chance to opt for a union-negotiated agreement.
The NSW Supreme Court has refused to restrain a recruiter from using confidential information from his employer, but has ordered him to return some material he was sent unsolicited.
A threat by a Rio Tinto subsidiary to stand down employees if they refused to undergo urine tests for drugs and alcohol wasn’t industrial action, because it was motivated by the employer’s desire to comply with OHS obligations under NSW laws, an AIRC full bench has found.
An AIRC full bench has today effectively flowed-on the AFPC's $21.66-a-week pay rise to workers on transitional awards, rounding the amount up to $21.70.
The 81,000 award-covered workers in South Australia have won a $24.50 weekly pay rise from October 1, after the SA IRC handed down its State Wage Case decision today.
Some 37,000 Western Australian public sector employees will receive a pay increase of at least 4.05% a year and enhanced work/life entitlements - including 12 months unpaid grandparental leave - under an agreement voted up last week.
The fairness test knocked the harshest edges off the Work Choices agreement-making regime, particularly in non-union environments, the Workplace Research Centre says in the last edition of its 15-year-old ADAM report, which has been killed off by the Workplace Authority's late release of data.
