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.
Workers at Xstrata's Tahmoor underground coal mine have voted up a new enterprise agreement, ending a bitter 18-month bargaining dispute that involved strikes, lockouts, a series of legal battles and an alleged bomb threat.
The media coverage of the David Jones sex discrimination case launched by publicist Kristy Fraser-Kirk might have contributed to her developing a psychiatric condition, her counsel told the Federal Court today.
The WA IRC has taken the unusual step of awarding an interim 5% wage increase to Perth train drivers that takes effect only if they refrain from further mass sick-days or other action disrupting the city's metropolitan rail system.
A worker sacked after bagging her employer on Facebook has been compensated for being unfairly dismissed, but Fair Work Australia has cautioned employees that information posted on social networking sites can come back to haunt them.
The Federal Magistrates Court has found CFMEU (Victorian branch) assistant secretary John Setka acted inappropriately in abusing and threatening to "get" the manager and foreman on a Bovis Lend Lease site, but it was also critical of the employers' refusal to discuss safety issues with the union and described the site's condition as "plainly inadequate".
"Blue flu" strikes again on Perth's rail system; ASU wins "family violence leave" entitlement; Keneally flags caps on union donations; and New book on social coalitions
