A Fair Work Australia full bench has begun a five-day hearing to settle a dispute over the number of agreements that should cover employees of Melbourne's fire service, in what looms as a test case on the Fair Work Act's scope provisions.
IR hard-liner Senator Eric Abetz is the new Shadow Workplace Relations Minister, with his predecessor Michael Keenan dumped from the front bench in the reshuffle announced this morning by new Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
ANF federal secretary Ged Kearney has defeated ACTU senior industrial officer Cath Bowtell in the preselection battle to replace Sharan Burrow as the peak body's president.
The Thiess/Degremont joint venture that is building the Wonthaggi desalination plant in Victoria has been given the green light to make a project agreement locking out the AWU after the union today decided not to press for an interim representation order to block the deal.
Fair Work Australia has suspended for a fortnight a NTEU ban at the University of South Australia, after it accepted that the welfare of graduating students would have been adversely affected.
The AIRC has published the stage four modern awards, the final step in an epic two-year award modernisation process that has fundamentally reshaped Australia's employment safety net.
Telstra to challenge CEPU strike; Gillard highlights Coalition revival of unfair dismissal exemption; Big turnout in Australia Post ballot; MUA strike at Total Marine Services; Lockout at Heinz; FWA refuses employer bid to defer majority support case; and $70,000 fine for RailCorp's agreement breach
More than four years after the expiry of their 2002-05 agreement, Virgin Blue cabin crew have voted up a new enterprise deal that delivers 3% annual pay rises, increases duty hours and creates new lower-paid entry-level positions.
ACTU senior industrial officer Cath Bowtell has nominated as a candidate for president of the peak union body, but supporters of Ged Kearney say the ANF national secretary clearly has the numbers. And while the Left unions work out the preselection process, there is also talk of creating a third ACTU assistant secretary's position to offer Bowtell if she is unsuccessful.
