IR advisory council for NSW; Abetz re-elected as Opposition Senate leader; Crown workers to vote on strike action; and Nurses seek mediation in staffing disputes.
QR National employees have voted up enterprise agreements delivering a moratorium on forced redundancies or relocations and pay increases of about 4%-a-year ahead of a possible float of the government-owned company later this year.
Close to 10,000 teachers plus thousands of support staff in NSW independent schools will receive pay rises of 14.8% over four years - tipping the top teachers' salary scale over the $100,000 mark - under three separate industry-wide agreements being voted on this week.
The Fair Work Act's low-paid bargaining stream should be available to award-reliant workers and those on "substandard agreements", the union seeking the first low-paid authorisation under the legislation has argued.
A company that secured interlocutory confidentiality orders against a former employee who resigned with four other to join its competitor has failed in its bid for "springboard" orders restraining him from starting his new job.
Independent backing for Labor Government clears way for changes to super, GEERS, parental leave; FWA confirms broad scope for dispute resolution clauses; CFMEU and McDonald to pay $50,000 over safety stoppage; and Qantas refused lawyer in discrimination case.
A Victorian retail employee who suffered a $6.72 hourly pay cut following the introduction of the sector's modern award has won the first take-home pay order under the Fair Work laws.
The ABCC, in its first case under federal sham contractor laws, is alleging an ACT builder unlawfully told five employees it had engaged them as independent contractors
The LHMU has secured bargaining orders confirming that two of its delegates have the right to participate in negotiations for an enterprise agreement, after Fair Work Australia found the employer's attempt to exclude the delegates constituted capricious and unfair conduct.
Fair Work Australia has reinstated a long-serving pilot who was summarily dismissed by airline Regional Express for allegedly abusing its company cars.
