Telstra and unions have begun the mammoth task of negotiating a single enterprise deal to replace potentially thousands of individual employee agreements and some 65 collective agreements.
Union membership increased by 46,900 to 1,834,700 in the 12 months to August last year as the labour force grew, leading to a slight rise in density to 18.4%, up from 18.3%.
Union seeks interim reinstatement for Toyota workers, as Ford halts production; $20,000 compensation for unfairly sacked prison officer; FWA asks Victorian Government to clarify whether it is pattern bargaining; Price inflation drops below 2% a year; and Average weekly earnings data to be released twice a year.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has this morning stepped into the HSU crises, telling the Federal Court that he will apply to have the union's East branch declared dysfunctional and placed in the hands of an administrator.
In a surprise twist, CFMEU mining and energy division members at Xstrata's Newlands coal mine in Queensland have used the controversial "opt-out" clause in the mine's agreement to seek to access the superior pay and bonuses the company offers as an incentive to move onto individual contracts.
The AMWU has today launched an adverse action case against Toyota Motor Corporation Australia, claiming it unfairly selected 12 delegates and OHS representatives for redundancy at its Altona assembly plant in Melbourne last week.
The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has approved a HR training program it ordered a company to implement, after finding last year that a team leader had victimised a general hand.
An architectural firm has failed to overturn an order to pay $50,000 compensation to an employee it sacked for "disloyalty" after he helped a colleague with her unfair dismissal claim, and has also been unsuccessful in seeking to reduce the payout because he made no written applications for jobs to mitigate his post-termination losses.
The Federal Court has ordered Vivienne Dye to pay almost $6m in indemnity costs to Commonwealth Securities for sexual harassment proceedings she brought that were "based on falsehood" and had no legal substance.
