GM Holden will go back to the drawing board in its negotiations for a new enterprise agreement with the AMWU, after the union’s shop stewards today rejected the company’s pay offer.
Telstra's proposed employee collective agreements restrict right of entry, cut pacesetting pay rates and provide inferior conditions for new employees, Federal Court Justice Ross Sundberg has found in his reasons for throwing out a Telstra injunction bid.
Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Julie Bishop is likely to be one of the candidates for the Shadow Treasury position, after the election today of Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal Party leader.
The AIRC has ruled it has no power to grant an application by unions for a ballot of all Telstra workers on whether they want a union or non-union collective agreement.
The Administrative Decisions Tribunal has struck off an IR barrister from the roll of legal practitioners, after an earlier finding that he was guilty of misleading the AIRC.
The NSW Supreme Court has found restraints in a high-paid broker’s employment contract are only binding for six months, despite clauses in the contract providing that he could be put on gardening leave for a longer period.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard says she is concerned about the impact on small business of the model award redundancy clause and will put her position to the AIRC.
A union application for a ballot of Telstra’s entire workforce will go ahead tomorrow after AIRC President Justice Geoffrey Giudice refused to grant a stay order sought by the company.
The Geelong Magistrates court has today set aside two days in December for the trial of CFMEU official Noel Washington, who has been charged with refusing to attend a compulsory ABCC interview over what occurred at a union meeting.
The AIRC's seven-member award modernisation full bench has today published exposure drafts of the 14 priority awards. The Commission has drafted only one award each for the retail, hospital and manufacturing sectors; set a general 25% loading for casuals; drafted a model redundancy clause for small business; modified the model flexibility clause in once instance only; and did not make the awards binding on organisations.
