The ASU has secured a majority support determination to force IBM to the bargaining table, in what could be the first time the company will negotiate with a union for an enterprise agreement for its Australian operations.
FWO guide to phasing in modern awards; Government moves toward single anti-discrimination law; No results from Gillard, AEU meeting; and Free bound copies of QIRC decisions.
A senior executive has won an $800,000 damages payout after his former employer, a national equipment hire company, shunted him aside during an ownership change, in a ruling that confirms the validity of "conditional" notices of termination or resignation.
One in five - or more than two million - of Australia's 10.7 million workers are now casuals and one million more are independent contractors, according to ABS data released today.
The Federal Court has refused Alcoa's application for an interim injunction to prevent the AWU continuing with its bargaining tactic of notifying work stoppages at a WA refinery without specifying a start or end time, which in effect forced the company to take worst-case-scenario defensive action.
Fair Work Australia has reinstated a tram conductor who was dismissed for assaulting a passenger who repeatedly ignored requests to stop preventing the vehicle's doors from closing.
Fair Dismissal Code checklist of "dubious value", says FWA; Different forms of action can be taken together, says FWA; Bus unions have to give five day's notice; Mining companies should pay rent tax, says CFMEU; and CPI up by 0.9% in quarter, 2.9% annually
The Government's principal advisors will receive up to $232,518 a year plus an allowance and a car under a new two-year agreement for parliamentary staff that brings the senior employees who were on AWAs during the Howard years back into the collective fold and delivers an across-the-board 3% annual pay increase.
Victorian building union chief Bill Oliver has called on construction workers to vote Green in the upper house in this year's federal election to send a message to Labor over the retention of the ABCC.
Virgin Blue has reached agreement with the ASU and TWU on a new pay deal that will deliver 1400-odd ground crew wage increases of 3% a year and almost double their parental leave entitlement.
