The Federal Court has today fined the CFMEU (construction division), its WA assistant secretary Joe McDonald and organiser Michael Powell a total of $35,000 over two unlawful strikes at the Ravensthorpe Nickel mine project in 2005.
A Virgin Blue pilots’ union is seeking registration from the AIRC, as the airline prepares to employ flight crew under individual contracts for its new international operations.
The ACTU will on Sunday launch the first in a series of new television advertisements as part of its strategy to head off what it sees as an aggressive push by employers on key areas of policy detail still to be finalised in the Rudd Government's substantive IR legislation.
Minimum salary levels for workers on 457 visas - both new entrants and those already in the workforce - will increase by 3.8% from August, while legislation providing for penalties against employers who breach their visa obligations will be introduced into Parliament later this year, the Federal Government announced today.
The Rudd Government has appointed recently retired Federal Court judge, Murray Wilcox QC, to investigate and report on the role and scope of the specialist division of Fair Work Australia that will replace the ABCC.
A Federal Court judge has upheld the imposition of the maximum $33,000 penalty on a company that deliberately denied a new mother her right to return to work after maternity leave.
Qantas is still refusing to break from its wages cap of 3% a year despite an ACTU-coordinated meeting of aviation unions yesterday calling on it to do so, with the airline saying it was "hardly the time" to change what had worked well for all parties.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick is pushing for the Rudd Government to introduce paid maternity leave in two stages - 14 weeks initially, before moving to 48 weeks. Her proposal also provides a further six weeks paid leave for supporting parents.
Store workers at DHL Exel Supply Chain's Matraville (NSW) site are stuck on an unlawfully-made enterprise agreement, after their employer secretly negotiated a deal with the NUW that locked out their longstanding representatives, the TWU.
The AiG has recommended the introduction of 12 to 14 weeks of publicly-funded paid maternity leave and rejected suggestions that employers should contribute, in oral evidence to the Productivity Commission's paid parental leave inquiry today.
