NSW TAFE teachers have today defied State IRC orders and staged a 24-hour strike as part of their campaign against the NSW Government, which the Commission earlier criticised as "dishonest".
South Australian public school teachers have won pay increases totalling 15.75% over four years following arbitration of their long-running dispute with the State Government. But in a decision that breaks the existing nexus, TAFE lecturers will receive 14.25%.
A dearth of quality candidates from employer backgrounds meant the federal government had limited options in seeking to appoint applicants from that side of the industrial divide as members of Fair Work Australia, DEEWR officials revealed last night.
Fair Work Australia has received its first take home pay order, it was revealed in Senate Estimates today, as the parliamentary committee subjected the tribunal's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, to his first grilling.
The Fair Work Ombudsman's use of the inspection "blitz" as its main compliance tool has eliminated its value as a deterrent, researchers told a conference in Sydney last week.
Xstrata has locked out 250-odd workers at its Tahmoor underground coal mine, escalating a bargaining dispute with the CFMEU over job security and the use of contractors at the site.
A lawyer who quit his job with a country law firm to work for a local rival firm has successfully challenged a restraint in his employment contract that would have sidelined him for 12 months.
Giudice to face Estimates on Wednesday; ACTU to seek minimum wage catch-up; Woodside to meet unions; Court extends Pluto injunction; Alcoa faces strikes at WA alumina operations; Senator Collins assisting Gillard on work-family balance, pay equity; and QIRC recognises local government association
