The Rudd Government's extension of unfair dismissal laws could come into effect as early as next year if its main IR legislation is passed by Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister and Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard said today.
Unions, employers meet Gillard in Canberra, as Parliament sitting days released; Workplace Ombudsman targets Queensland security and hospitality; Liberal MPs' company in WO prosecution; ABC Learning refused High Court appeal over liability for junior employee; and Reynolds releases letter to Robinson.
The Fair Pay Commission's reviews of junior rates and pay scales will be halted, after its chair, Professor Ian Harper, today agreed to a request from Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard.
An employee sacked for medical incapacity who lodged her unfair dismissal claim one working day late has won her bid for a hearing after an AIRC full bench quashed an earlier finding that her application was "manifestly untenable."
Allied health workers including radiologists and physiotherapists walked off the job at Victorian public hospitals today in their escalating bargaining dispute with the State Government.
The Rudd Government's Work Choices transition bill will include a no-disadvantage test, abolish the Fact Sheet requirements and ban new AWAs, but the 10-condition safety net will not be finalised until later next year.
The ABCC should not have pursued prosecutions against the CFMEU for seeking strike pay for stoppages on Victorian construction sites over the death of a worker in 2003 after building unions changed their fatality policy in 2005, the Federal Court suggested today.
CFMEU mining and energy division leader Tony Maher - speaking on behalf of trade unions across the globe - has told the Bali climate change conference there must be "deep cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions and that workers and their representatives need to be involved in "the biggest trade and employment treaty process ever attempted by the nations of the Earth".
The Priceline worker who saw his job readvertised at a lower rate after being made redundant and went on to feature in an ACTU commercial during the election campaign has, for the second time, had his unfair dismissal claim barred from being heard under the Work Choices operational reasons exemption.
In a long-running legal battle that has cost the CFMEU (forestry division) about $1.5 million, the Victorian Court of Appeal has upheld an earlier finding that the union and logging workers did not falsely imprison a group of anti-logging protesters.
