Topic: Industrial action/disputes | Page 3 | Browse industrial relations and employment law news by topic

Viewing all articles in "Industrial action/disputes" which contains 16 sub-topics, select one from the list below to further narrow your browsing.

Crisafulli's "nation-leading" pay pledge in doubt: Union

The QNMU says the Crisafulli Liberal Government has reneged on a commitment to maintain "nation-leading" wages and conditions for the State's nurses and midwives, with an offer that will leave two-thirds of them worse off in three years and hand the competitive edge to Victoria.

Training would have helped warring workers: FWC

The FWC has found that an employer failed to implement recommendations from two bullying investigations conducted by the Ai Group and should now consider leadership training for the former manager of a worker who quit after the filing of the dispute case.

Email "snooping" suspension procedurally fair: FWC

The UFU has failed to convince the FWC that Fire Rescue Victoria used a procedurally unfair process when it suspended two workers, after Victoria's anti-corruption body found they accessed private work emails at Victorian branch secretary Peter Marshall's request.

UFU pursuit of "attack" source flames out

The FWC has thrown out a UFU bid for dispute orders forcing Fire Rescue Victoria to "take sides" and reveal its role in a report to Victoria's Parliament that criticises an agreement clause requiring union consultation and "consensus" before implementing change.

"Tenacious" private nurses almost double pay rise

NSW nurses and midwives have voted up a three-year Ramsay Health agreement featuring a 16% pay rise and improved conditions, after the NSWNMA's longest-running campaign of industrial action.

Intentions exclude "coastal" depot workers from allowance

The FWC has refused to resolve a dispute about whether a remote locality allowance should be calculated on travel by road or "as the crow flies", but has determined, based on the parties' intentions, that a new Gladstone depot would not be covered by the allowance because it is "coastal" rather than remote.

Accord at Patrick, 27 years after docks war

Wharfies have near-unanimously voted up a "historic" Patrick Stevedores deal that provides pay rises of at least 10% over three years, a $2000 bonus and a super boost, eight months before the nominal expiry of the current agreement, and coinciding with the anniversary of the 1998 waterfront dispute.

Revivified NSW tribunal asserts its power

The NSW IRC has affirmed its ability to dictate the terms of a corrective Facebook post it forced the HSU to publish and has dismissed a claim that in heading off paramedics' industrial action, a senior tribunal member approached it on the basis that State IR laws don't "tolerate" it during conciliation.

Bid to force Rio to table; Lessons from Pilbara's past

Mining unions have applied to the FWC for a majority support determination to force Rio Tinto to the bargaining table with workers at its Paraburdoo iron ore operations, while an IR researcher says in a forthcoming book that Pilbara workers' ambitious demands at the height of union power more than four decades ago can provide lessons for unions today.

FWC triennial report confirms agreements rebound

The number of workers covered by agreements has risen by 36.5% over the past three years, according to the latest triennial FWC general manager's report, while applications to deal with bargaining disputes rose 73.5% over the same period.

Browsing: Industrial action/disputes | Page 3 (898 items)