New Opposition leader Tony Abbott and his deputy Julie Bishop today both indicated support for individual employment contracts, in comments Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said showed their determination to bring back Work Choices-style AWAs.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has released the information statement that national system employers will be required to give to all new employees from January 1.
The AMWU (vehicle division) and Ford are looking at ways to press ahead with their proposed enterprise agreement despite failing to secure the support of the company's technical and salaried workers for the deal.
The national IR system will commence from January 1 next year after federal parliament today voted to pass the State Referrals bill and the NSW Parliament yesterday referred its IR powers for the private sector to Canberra.
An employer must wait until the 22nd day after giving employees notice of their representation rights before asking them to vote on a proposed agreement, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
FWA has dismissed a LHMU application for bargaining orders against a club that refused it access to a meeting with employees on agreement-making and award modernisation, holding that communication in the workforce should be encouraged, not regulated or monopolised.
More than 1500 construction workers on Woodside's Pluto LNG project have resisted compromise offers from the employer – including free iPods – to end their 48-hour strike over proposed changes to accommodation arrangements.
New Coalition Leader Tony Abbott today gave a strong indication that he would not follow his Opposition predecessors in seeking to neutralise IR as an issue, repeating their declaration that Work Choices dead but continuing that the Howard Government's policies delivered jobs growth and record low strike rates.
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