The Victorian Hospitals Association has successfully appealed against the s418 order made by Commissioner Suzanne Jones after arguing it left hospital employers with "difficulty and uncertainty" and failed to meet the objectives of the Fair Work Act.
Qantas-TWU arbitration to begin in March, pilots in April, as ALAEA asks members to consider status quo on job security; Greens bill to safeguard bargaining for job security; and University dismissal a "chilling warning".
FWA is likely to begin arbitrating an agreement between Qantas and the TWU in late March or early April, while the union today decided against mounting its own Federal Court challenge to the tribunal's termination of industrial action at the airline.
On the final parliamentary sitting day for the year, the Federal Government has introduced legislation to increase protection for TCF outworkers but its construction and paid parental leave bills look like being held over until 2012. Its coal industry superannuation legislation, meanwhile, was voted up last night.
A 2011 NSW state government policy that unilaterally forces redundancy on public sector employees who have been declared "excess" and strips them of the benefits they had been promised is unfair, NSW IRC President Justice Roger Boland has found.
Former chief of staff to John Howard, Arthur Sinodinos, gave what he described as a "brief memorial service" to Work Choices in his first speech as federal parliament's newest senator yesterday.
A new enterprise agreement covering 25% of the Australian Public Service might soon be signed, after the CPSU endorsed a revised offer by the Department of Human Services.
The Greens will move amendments to remove coercive powers, broaden the definition of sham contracting and increase privacy protection when debate, set down for this afternoon, resumes on the Federal Government's construction industry legislation.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to be established under legislation introduced into Parliament today will have the power to make orders to ensure truck drivers are paid for long waiting times, which are currently usually unpaid and don't count as rest periods.
