AiG's Ridout appointed to Reserve Bank Board; Victorian public sector nurses crank up public campaign; Union breached industrial officer’s contract, says tribunal; Sasse laments "erosion" of construction IR reform framework; and AMMA urges Government to "stare down" unions after changes to platform.
Private sector enterprise agreements lodged with FWA in the June quarter provided an average pay rise of 4.2% - up substantially on the 3.8% rise in the previous quarter – while public sector pay rises plummeted as result of low-paying APS and state agency deals, according to DEEWR.
Engineer not forced to resign over beard, tribunal finds; Tribunal rejects appeal against delivery driver's reinstatement; and Whole relationship and contract determine employment relationship.
Arbitration will be more readily available to resolve disputes over agreements and the Government will consider during the review of the Fair Work Act whether FWA needs new powers to arbitrate protracted bargaining disputes, under changes to the Labor Party's platform adopted at its national conference yesterday.
The FWO has come out on top in a hard-fought underpayment case over unlodged AWAs, with a court finding it had made out its arguments despite flaws in its initial process and claims of improper motivation by the call centre it was investigating.
FWA has ruled a mining company is not obliged to switch from urine tests to saliva tests to screen employees for drugs, despite its commitment to do so.
Australian IR policymakers need to examine the potential benefits of interest arbitration by a labour board or tribunal, a commonly-used dispute settling mechanism in North American collective bargaining systems, according to Monash University Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth.
The successor to long-serving CFMEU (construction & general division) NSW secretary, Andrew Ferguson, has lost his job, with one of his deputies taking over the role.
A bid by John Holland Aviation to rely on a side deal to extend a three-year enterprise agreement at the former Ansett maintenance base came to an end this week in the Victorian Court of Appeal.
