Australia's only federal Greens MP, former industrial lawyer Adam Bandt, has in his first speech to Parliament today thanked the unions that supported his campaign and maintained there is no real equality before the law when building workers are "worse off than accused criminals".
Industrial action and collective coverage up at BHPB; FWA extends equal pay timetable; Not enough voters in secret ballot; IMF calls for measures to boost labour mobility; and Unions look at future of labour hire.
A stockbroker who repudiated his employment contract must pay half a million dollars in liquidated damages to his former employer, following a NSW Court of Appeal ruling.
The ANF has withdrawn its application for orders to protect some 5,000 aged care nurses in NSW and Queensland from cuts to their earnings under modern awards, in what was to be the first major test of the Fair Work Act's take-home pay provisions.
The Federal Court has this afternoon refused a bid to suppress the names of witnesses in the David Jones s-xual harassment matter, while it has confirmed that it will start hearing the substantive case on December 20.
The Gilllard Government will soon announce a replacement for outgoing ABC Commissioner John Lloyd, while employers and unions continued their debate over the future of the watchdog as parliament resumed today.
The QPSU and the ASU's Central and Southern Queensland clerical and administrative branch have taken the first steps in forming a new 40,000 member union, Unite Queensland, but the CPSU's state public sector wing is opposed to plans to affiliate the entity with the federal ASU.
An employer that sexually discriminated against a female employee when it sacked her for purported poor performance has won a partial stay on a massive $466,000 damages payout.
