Rio Tinto has followed its iron ore rival BHP Billiton in making a new five-year non-union collective agreement with a small numbers of workers, prompting unions to push the Federal Government to close what they say is a loophole in its transitional IR legislation. Meanwhile, BHPB and unions are close to striking a new agreement for the company's remaining award-covered employees in iron ore.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has rejected suggestions that drafting of the Federal Government's substantive IR bill was behind schedule, saying it was on track to be introduced into parliament in the second half of the year.
Employees at IBM Australia's operations centre will from next week begin voting on a secret ballot for industrial action, as part of a bid by the ASU to get up the first union collective agreement for the global technology company's Australian operations.
Remove exemptions from privacy laws for AFPC, employee records, says ALRC; LHMU calls on Starwood to end “media gag” policy"; Inflation to hit 5%, says RBA; Gillard urges Telstra to abandon Work Choices; and Recruitment company CEO wins breach of contract claim.
A labour hire company has been fined $40,000 and its director $8,000 for failing to pay three Filipino nursing assistants more than $13,000 in wages, casual loadings, penalty rates and holiday pay in breach of the Workplace Relations Act and the Nursing Homes NAPSA.
A rail maintenance company committed indirect racial discrimination when it demoted a Macedonian-born supervisor due to concerns that his poor literacy was a safety risk, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled.
Telstra accuses ACTU of lying; Protest against swipe cared in AIRC again; Justice Branson new HREOC president; and Record OHS fine over death of Fosters worker.
A Donut King store operator who coerced and bullied a long-serving employee to sign an AWA has been fined $12,000 by the Federal Magistrates Court, following a prosecution by the Workplace Ombudsman.
