Big W's 25,000-plus employees will receive a 9.9% wage rise over three years and junior rates will be abolished for 20-year-olds under a new deal negotiated with the SDA.
A court has taken into account in fining an Xstrata subsidiary $22,000 that workers it retrenched in breach of their enterprise agreement had no other recourse, because of Work Choices' 100-employee threshold for unfair dismissal claims.
CEPU members employed at Telstra are poised to strike on Friday and take further industrial action in the weeks ahead after a breakdown in negotiations for a new enterprise agreement.
Engineers refuse Virgin media "gag" bid as precondition for bargaining; FWA agrees not to transfer agreement to new employer; and Tribe hearing adjourned to December 18.
The meatworkers’ union, which is seeking a scope order so it can have a separate agreement for meat departments at Woolworths' supermarkets, has failed in a bid to win access to confidential notes made by negotiators during bargaining between the retailer and the SDA.
The vast bulk of discrimination complaints continue to be employment-related, with incidents at work accounting for 91% of sex discrimination complaints made in the year ending June 2009, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The test for giving sacked employees extra time to lodge unfair dismissal claims is tougher now than it was under the Workplace Relations Act, Fair Work Australia has held.
The CEPU has again failed to secure a protected action ballot of its members at Australia Post, after Fair Work Australia found it was continuing to seek non-permitted content on the use contractors that caused a full bench to strike down its first ballot bid.
