The Rudd Government's transitional IR legislation has today passed through Parliament, after the House of Representatives this morning accepted the amendments made yesterday in the Senate.
The AIRC has upheld Brisbane City Council's sacking of an employee, ruling that his post-dismissal conviction for theft before a court justified the council's action.
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The Opposition may have committed to "not supporting but not opposing" the Government's transitional IR bill, but Coalition leader Brendan Nelson today made it clear that he remained opposed to its plan to reintroduce unfair dismissal laws for small business.
Labor senators on the inquiry into the Government's transitional IR legislation made no recommendations on amending the legislation in their report tabled last night, but the ALP has now introduced into parliament 37 amendments that address some of the concerns raised during the Senate inquiry.
The Labor majority on the Senate committee inquiring into the ALP's transitional IR bill has made just one recommendation in its report tabled late this afternoon - that the Senate pass the legislation.
The Rudd Government's transitional IR bill is through the Lower House and looks on track to be proclaimed next week, after the Opposition stuck with its strategy announced last month of not supporting, but not opposing, the legislation.
