Qantas maintenance engineers to begin one-hour strikes; MUA says no deal at Patrick; and Job offer for redundant Qantas workers is genuine, says Virgin.
Fair Work Australia has refused to order the ATO to provide "pertinent responses" to the ASU's questions on its pay offer, holding the good faith bargaining laws required the department to provide relevant information, not to satisfy the union.
Media bargaining wrap-up: AAP agreement up for approval today; Extension to Fairfax bargaining deadline; Network Ten set to vote; and SBS employees reject initial offer.
Managers should not unilaterally decide that redundant employees won't be interested in redeployment to lower paid jobs, Fair Work Australia has ruled in finding a redundancy wasn't genuine.
Fair Work Australia has upheld the sacking of an employee who posted an aggressive anti-work rant on his Facebook page from his home computer outside work hours.
Qantas's job loss announcement had "inflamed tensions" with unions, but future industrial action at the airline would be bargaining-related, ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence said today.
Private sector rates of pay are growing at 3.8% a year in trend terms, only marginally ahead of inflation, according to the ABS Labour Price Index, released today.
Qantas to make 1000 employees redundant; Ministerial council to develop long service leave NES; Victorian IR Minister wants legislation review brought forward; Expectations of wage and profit increases a challenge for monetary policy, says RBA; Westpac brings employees back in-house; and State Commission rejects AWU work value claim.
