Two months after locking horns in court in a union-initiated freedom of association case, the CPSU and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have reached agreement on a new protocol for negotiation, communication and access to the workplace which the union believes could be a model for all APS agencies.
Fourth day of strikes for SA teachers; AIRC sets dates for wages and allowances review; TCFU calls for new industry plan; and Big business shouldn't be winners of tax review, says ACTU
A company whose Sydney site has been used by the ALP and unions to support their case for majority rules bargaining has lost its application to have its expired agreement terminated, with the AIRC finding it was not in the public interest to do so despite accepting the individual contracts Cochlear put to its workforce were "generally superior" to the certified deal.
$9600 fine for hotel principals; Birth rate likely to have exceeded 1.9 last year, says PC; Sonny Bill Williams case to test negative covenants; and Conciliation by ACAS cuts hearing days by 75%.
A CFMEU delegate coerced and made false and misleading statements in a bid to convince a non-member contractor to join the union in September 2006, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
The AMWU told the AIRC yesterday that it intended to use the award modernisation process to "get back what was taken away" by Work Choices. It also said unions had reached "a high level of agreement" with metals employers and that only 10 items remained in dispute.
A supermarket trolley collection company has been fined $120,000 fine for underpaying vulnerable workers - who were given deliberately complex employment contracts - more than $100,000.
The AMMA has prepared a draft modern award for the mining industry that the AWU claims contains terms and conditions "so inferior" to those in existing awards that the document should be given "minimal weight" by the AIRC.
In an important confidential information ruling, the England & Wales High Court has ordered a former employee to hand over all of the client information he had allegedly transferred to the database of a professional networking site.
Significant differences between employers and unions over the coverage, scope and pay structures of future awards have emerged as the AIRC today began its first consultations on the priority modern awards.
