The Federal Government has introduced a bill into parliament to secure the $2.8 billion it has committed to contributing to equal pay increases for social and community sector employeess.
A rare study of the language of agreements reveals there has been little progress over two decades of enterprise bargaining in achieving the policy goal of creating industrial instruments that are simple and easy to understand.
Long-serving Australian Federation of Air Pilots executive director and veteran of the landmark 1989 pilots' dispute Terry O'Connell died on Sunday after a short illness.
Undertakings not enough to get opt-out deals across the line; Three NSW industrial barristers take silk; and Services job losses accelerating, as unions call for action.
In a ruling that is likely to influence future wage arbitrations, an FWA full bench has awarded 150 Schweppes production and distribution workers a 11% wage increase in a two-year workplace determination, including 3% to compensate them for the period since the expiry of their last agreement.
The Fair Work Building & Construction Inspectorate has launched civil proceedings in the Federal Court against the CFMEU and ten officials alleging coercion over their demand that Grocon employ union-nominated shop stewards at its sites.
Thousands of NSW public servants have today defied IRC orders prohibiting a four-hour strike in protest against the O'Farrell Government's IR changes; while the ETU has blasted the NSW Premier's "bizarre claim" that amendments to the Fair Work regime are the key to lowering power costs.
The NSW Supreme Court has stopped two former OAMPS Gault Armstrong Pty Ltd insurance brokers from working for a direct competitor, pending a hearing on the enforceability of restraint of trade clauses in their employment contracts.
