Ten years after the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute, Patrick and the MUA have reached in-principle agreement on a new three-year enterprise deal that provides a substantial pay rise and boosts paid parental leave.
Thousands of Queensland power workers will go out for 24 hours from 6am tomorrow, in a bid to increase the pay offers from government-owned electricity corporations Energex, Ergon and Powerlink.
Barklamb takes over as workplace policy director at ACCI; Maternity leave inquiry to hear from ACCI, CFMEU, NTEU and Australian Breastfeeding Association tomorrow; and Victorian Government calls for collaborative IR and maintenance of tariffs in car industry.
The Workplace Ombudsman has confirmed that Union Solidarity has responded to its May 8 deadline to respond to a notice in which it sought to establish whether there were formal links between the organisation and the AMWU during the dispute that shut down manufacturing at Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland's Fishermens Bend site last month.
Inflation will be at 4% for 2008, says Reserve Bank; Egan joins Keating in criticising Robertson, Riordan; Nelson outlines four IR policy beliefs; AIRC refuses secret ballot extension; and Rules change for AIRC.
The Tax Office unlawfully discriminated against a compliance officer when it sacked him because it believed he had high blood pressure, the Federal Court has found.
Qantas's licensed aircraft mechanical engineers will apply overtime bans from Thursday after voting overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action - including 48-hour stoppages - in a secret ballot.
Climate change is now the top political priority for the AWU, because Australia's response has the potential to severely affect energy-intensive industries employing many of its 135,000 members, such as aluminium, steel, cement, petrochemicals and oil and gas, according to the union's national secretary, Paul Howes.
It wasn't excessive to impose a $170,000 penalty on an employer for its deliberate, reprehensible conduct in applying duress to force vulnerable employees to sign AWAs, a Federal Court full bench majority has ruled.
A Federal Court full bench has upheld a finding that Qantas discriminated against an engineer because of his race, but has quashed a disability finding.
