The ANF this morning at the hearing to consider terminating industrial action by its members at Victorian public hospitals offered to lift all bans today and enter into consent arbitration if the State Government agreed.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) has successfully challenged a move by BHP Coal to introduce new start and finish times at one of its Bowen Basin mines, while industrial action at the central Queensland mines has continued since workers voted down a direct offer from the company.
The Victorian Government's application to terminate industrial action by nurses at public hospitals is set to continue at 9.30 tomorrow morning, after the Government case, run by the Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association, took the whole of today's hearing.
The promulgation of a NZ-style code of good faith bargaining in Australia could shift bargaining culture to one more oriented to collaboration and achievement of mutual gains, Monash University's Anthony Forsyth told ABCC inspectors today.
Full bench convenes tomorrow to consider bid to end nurses' industrial action; Agreement gets up by narrow margin at SBS; Poultry workers maintaining picket at Baiada Poultry; Union activist challenging CPSU national secretary.
Cheap air travel that has enabled the proliferation of fly-in, fly-out arrangements has "dispersed the benefits" of the resources boom, according to Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, while mining companies in submissions to a parliamentary inquiry are pushing for new tax breaks to encourage housing of workers near mines.
Labour and discrimination law in Australia have been "two separate spheres spinning independently" and need to be better integrated, Sydney University Emeritus Professor of Law Ron McCallum said recently, in a speech in which he also cautioned against making it easier to terminate industrial action in the wake of the Qantas ruling.
Ballot valid despite employees not getting papers; Service industry probe uncovers sham contracting; Delays on OHS harmonisation; Full bench upholds truck driver reinstatement; FWA confirms minimum wage timetable; and Correction to Qantas appeal article.
A contractor on Woodside's giant Pluto LNG project has failed to convince a Fair Work Australia full bench that the tribunal should not have granted a majority support determination when a planned demobilisation meant many of the workers who voted in favour of bargaining wouldn't be covered by any agreement that might have eventuated.
