CPSU has more than 1,000 new delegates; Deal follows AWMU information request; Employer unfair dismissal cost claim out of time, says AIRC; Steak-sanga-gate resolved; Government releases employee share scheme draft laws; Cheaper fuel means less pay for truckies; and Last day for submissions to WA IR inquiry.
Cultural and "black letter" legal changes to IR since the 1990s have helped Australia to weather the global financial crisis, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens said today.
Unions remain obliged under the Fair Work Act to provide evidence that they are genuinely trying to reach agreement in seeking orders for a protected action ballot, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
Construction bill through lower house; Support for telephone conciliation; Senate "dinosaurs" will cost green jobs, says ACTU; $115,000 payout for underpaid Australian Open security guard; and FWA publishes reasons for first s418 order against employer
Unions are using the new good faith bargaining provisions to try to lock employers into bargaining according to their rules, while, as expected, they are also testing the limits of what information they can now request from companies.
A Perth childcare business found to have unlawfully sacked an employee upon her return from maternity leave has been ordered to pay a penalty of almost $30,000 to the LHMU.
The Ai Group is seeking to influence the development of good faith bargaining case law by intervening in a CFMEU bid for good faith orders that is before Fair Work Australia.
Postal workers to vote on industrial action; NUW stoush not over yet; Court freezes most of massive harassment payout; and Digest available for construction IR bill.
Fair Work Australia has made its first majority support determination, for the Victorian employees of funeral services company Invocare, and ordered a majority support ballot of some 600 employees at power company TRUenergy.
