The Your Rights at Work campaign could have been very different if leadership in the ACTU and Union NSW had embraced calls from some unions for an old-style "feet in the street" campaign, a new report has revealed.
CPSU members back industrial action at Telstra; Stewart recommends national regulation for child employment; and $1m haul from employers whose deals failed fairness test
New equal pay orders available under the Fair Work Bill have the potential to be easier to get and more far reaching than under current laws, but IR experts say much will depend on how FWA interprets the new provisions.
The AIRC has found that a CFMEU (construction division) organiser who got into a heated argument with a project manager after being told, incorrectly, that posters he'd put up in the lunch shed the day before had been thrown out did not on that occasion breach his entry rights, with the Commission noting it was "a construction site not a kindergarten".
The Federal Government's move to harmonise OHS laws system suffered a major setback last night, with Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard officially laying aside her Safe Work Australia bill after the non-Government senators again insisted on the amendments the Government had already rejected.
Employers looking to outsource will, under Labor's Fair Work Bill, face the same uncertainty they did before Work Choices introduced the "sole or dominant reason" test, while the new legislation's broader discrimination regime will also increase prospective employees' rights, according to Blake Dawson senior associate Michael Tamvakologos.
WA teachers vote up 15%-plus pay deal; Safe Work Bill impasse continues; Parliament passes temporary worker bill; News Ltd printers voting on new agreement; Big drop in days lost to industrial disputes; CPSU secret ballot at Telstra closes; AFPC calls for submissions on final pay review; and Lee departs Workforce Victoria
The Federal Government's Fair Work Bill 2008 has this evening passed through the House of Representatives, on what was meant to have been the final sitting day of the year.
A former employee with a global HR consultancy has relied on comments made by a manager years earlier in pre-employment negotiations to win her claim for a $100,000-plus severance payout.
The AMWU has called on the Federal Government to impose a compulsory levy on employers to fund measures designed to guarantee 100% of workers' entitlements.
