The CEPU has applied to access potentially hundreds of non-members' records at Telstra, in the first use of provisions that resulted from last-minute negotiations between the Federal Government and Family First Senator Steve Fielding.
Queensland passes referral bill; Court awards cost against worker for unlawful termination claim; Unemployment rises, despite jobs growth; "Project PJs" takes out top equal opportunity award
A man who was rejected for a firefighter's position with the WA Fire and Emergency Service Authority after his pre-employment medical detected he was colour blind has failed in a discrimination claim.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has amended her award modernisation request to have the AIRC consider introducing more generous entitlements for flight attendants and airport ground crew.
The AiG is campaigning against the passage of the Government's legislation to facilitate state referrals of IR powers, on the basis that it and the related intergovernmental agreements inappropriately hand the states powers to veto any necessary changes to the Fair Work Act.
Unions must seek a fresh protected action ballot if they decide to change the coverage of the agreement they are seeking, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
Ballot to go ahead at Australia Post; Thales, unions forge new cooperative relationship; FWA suspends action at Autoliv; and Rural WA shire not a trading corporation: WA IRC
Unions NSW has objected to provisions in the Rudd Government's IR referrals bill under which utilities workers would become federal employees. DEEWR, meanwhile, says it expects FWA to use a full five-year phase in period to transition state award employees to modern awards.
A Vietnamese-speaking employee ordered by his manager to speak English while at work and docked pay after complaining about it has won a $28,000 payout from the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal.
The AIRC award modernisation full bench has reversed its preliminary decision not to make an award to cover non-public service state employees and has published a draft State Government Agencies Award.
