The NSW Supreme Court has found that a redundancy offer Tooheys made by letter to six brewery workers was a binding contract, despite the company over-calculating their entitlements by a total of $640,000.
The AMWU yesterday outlined a plan for modernising manufacturing industry awards that would reduce 110 industrial instruments to a single award it has dubbed “MIA 2010”.
An employer discriminated against an injured worker by excluding him from a redundancy or relocation offer despite its claims he was unfit for the requirements of the job, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has ruled.
The award modernisation process has created a rift between the two major health unions, after the ACTU supported a bid by the nursing union to create a modern national nursing award.
The services sector is at risk of losing 850,000 jobs, or nearly one in ten positions, offshore over the next two decades, according to a report commissioned by Australia's service unions - the ASU, CPSU, FSU and the CEPU.
Average salaries rose by 4.7% in 2007-08, survey finds; Workplace Ombudsman releases new fact sheets; and Jetstar recruits 15 pilots a month, says Dixon.
Employer peak groups yesterday told the AIRC that the model award flexibility clause canvassed by the ACTU was a complex, rigid throwback to the early 1990s, while unions claimed the employer flexibility proposal was "worse than AWAs".
Thales introduces five days paid paternity leave; Almost half of medium to large employers providing paid maternity leave: EOWA; PC parental leave inquiry transcript now available for Sydney and Melbourne; AMMA to push for mining industry award to be given priority; BCA calls for overhaul of teacher certification, pay; Rolling stoppages in June in NSW schools, another strike next term; Jetstar bringing in pilots on 457 visas; ACTU launches new television advertising campaign; and DHL Exel judgment and NSW IRC president's speech now available.
State and federal IR ministers have today agreement on a set of principles for a national IR system, clearing the way for officials to begin drafting an inter-governmental agreement.
