Almost 80 coal loader workers will be able to seek to protect $2m in super entitlements via a s106 unfair contracts case in the NSW IRC, after an appeal court found Work Choices and its regulations didn't stop it proceeding.
The AIRC has made a workplace determination to cover Victorian allied health employees who were the first workers forced under Work Choices to stop industrial action because it posed a risk to patients.
Members of the strife-torn HSU Victorian (No 1) branch will tomorrow vote on whether new elections should be called to break the deadlock between the union's warring officials.
The AIRC has made a further 27 modern awards in stage two of the award modernisation process. Those awards, released on Friday, are in agriculture; building, metal and civil construction; cleaning; financial services; graphic arts;, health and welfare services; information and communications technology; private transport; quarrying; and sanitary and garbage disposal.
Today’s ministerial council meeting in Adelaide – the first since the passage of the Fair Work Act - confirmed that Victoria will make a new referral of IR powers to Canberra that will take effect from July 1, while any referrals by other states will apply from January 1 next year.
The Wilcox report on the future regulation of the construction industry has drawn fire from both sides of the IR divide today, with employers saying his recommendations go too far and unions not far enough.
Special laws for the building and construction industry should be largely abolished, but a new division within the Fair Work Ombudsman should retain compulsory examination powers, Murray Wilcox QC has told the Government.
