A Virgin Blue pilots’ union is seeking registration from the AIRC, as the airline prepares to employ flight crew under individual contracts for its new international operations.
A Federal Court judge has upheld the imposition of the maximum $33,000 penalty on a company that deliberately denied a new mother her right to return to work after maternity leave.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick is pushing for the Rudd Government to introduce paid maternity leave in two stages - 14 weeks initially, before moving to 48 weeks. Her proposal also provides a further six weeks paid leave for supporting parents.
Store workers at DHL Exel Supply Chain's Matraville (NSW) site are stuck on an unlawfully-made enterprise agreement, after their employer secretly negotiated a deal with the NUW that locked out their longstanding representatives, the TWU.
The AiG has recommended the introduction of 12 to 14 weeks of publicly-funded paid maternity leave and rejected suggestions that employers should contribute, in oral evidence to the Productivity Commission's paid parental leave inquiry today.
The Rudd Government has confirmed that it is looking closely at New Zealand's trial of a temporary unskilled labour scheme, while former AMWU national secretary and now NSW Senator-elect Doug Cameron has warned that the rise of far-Right forces, exploitation of overseas workers, and undermining of local wages and conditions were all potential consequences of big rises in unskilled immigration.
The UK's "right to request provisions" - the model for the flexibility regime for pre-school-aged children proposed by the Rudd Government - are about to be extended to cover parents of children up to 16 years old.
The AIRC is set to hear an appeal that will test for the first time under Work Choices the ability of unions to obtain a s496 order against an employer lockout.
AIRC says Qantas within rights to cancel engineers’ leave; ABCC prosecuting CFMEU and organisers over alleged false statements; Pilots’ union seeks to extend Virgin coverage; NSW wage bench reserves decision, WA case starts Monday; and Big greenhouse liabilities another reason not to sell or lease NSW power sector, say unions.
