The Fair Work Bill mandates that an "individual flexibility arrangement" clause - modelled on the flexibility clause to be incorporated into modern awards - be included in all collective agreements.
The new low-paid bargaining and arbitration stream introduced by the Fair Work Bill could lead to improved wages and conditions for up to 20% of the workforce, according to LHMU national legal co-ordinator Neal Swancott.
Employer groups have had plenty of warning about what the Rudd Government's Fair Work Bill would deliver, and while their responses today ranged from a "workable compromise" to "the greatest increase in union power since Federation", it was the legislation's expansion of union right of entry that was consistently listed as a key concern, with the AiG also nominating the new transmission of business provisions.
The Opposition will not block the Rudd Government's Fair Work Bill and accepts Work Choices is dead, Coalition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said this afternoon.
The AIRC has rejected a business analyst's claim for unfair dismissal after finding that the state government superannuation fund he once worked for is not a constitutional corporation.
The Rudd Government's substantive IR legislation is likely to mark the end of 20 years of "chopping and changing" of industrial laws, Sydney University Professor of Law, Ron McCallum, told IR practitioners in Sydney last week.
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The NSW IRC has reinstated a truck driver, after major transport company Linfox Pty Ltd failed to establish that he breached its “three strikes and you're out" policy when he allegedly crashed his rig five times over a three-year period.
