In an unusual move, the AIRC's award modernisation full bench has asked Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard for further guidance on how it should make the restaurant and catering modern award.
Bargaining starts at Ford; British Airway's unpaid work plan takes off; Paramedics escalate industrial campaign; New committee inquiry on lifting productivity; Fair Work transitional and referral bills receive Royal Assent; and Australian unions join Iranian protests
Shareholders to have greater say on executive golden handshakes under new bill; Transitional legislation still to receive Royal Assent; and Mullett wins costs after charges withdrawn.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard's direction to the ABCC that would have introduced safeguards on its use of coercive powers has been voted down in the Senate, with the Coalition today winning the backing of both Family First's Senator Steve Fielding and independent Senator Nick Xenophon to oppose it.
The Federal Court has found that two CFMEU organisers did not have the right to enter the Kurnell desalination plant site under NSW OHS laws, but ruled they did not breach federal IR laws or commit trespass when they did so.
Three of WA's state-owned power companies are moving to have their employees vote on non-union collective agreements before new federal IR laws commence next week.
Senior Victorian public servant Tim Lee will be Fair Work Australia's inaugural general manager and Nick Wilson will be the Fair Work Ombudsman, the Federal Government announced this afternoon.
