New Zealand's National Party - which has today made a deal to govern with the support of the ACT party following Saturday's election victory - has promised to introduce an optional three-month probation period for employees of small businesses and to allow cashing out of one week of annual leave.
Coles Group’s logistics operation has locked out about 150 employees at its Huntingwood distribution centre in western Sydney, in response to protected strikes over proposed rostering changes at the site.
Western Australia’s Barnett Government will commission a wide-ranging independent review of the state’s IR system, Commerce Minister Troy Buswell announced today, after revealing this week he was "highly unlikely" to refer the state’s IR powers to Canberra.
Don't dump paid maternity leave, say Broderick and Burrow; Government commits $22m to ABC Learning; and First book on Your Rights at Work campaign launched.
While the bulk of the $58.5m the Howard Government spent on its second round of Work Choices advertising went to the company with its media placement contract, Universal McCann, the latest DEEWR annual report also reveals that $3.387m went to the creators of the Work Choices "Know where you stand" campaign, Whybin TBWA, and $1.2m went to Open Mind Research for survey work before the introduction of the safety net.
Injunction granted against construction workers on North West Shelf oil and gas project; Long service leave case to SA Supreme Court; and Unfair workplace model does not give rise to dispute, court finds.
CEPU and CPSU members employed at Telstra will vote later this month on whether they will take protected industrial action after the unions' application for a secret ballot was granted by the AIRC today.
The future of state industrial commissions and workplace inspectorates under a national IR system for the private sector are two of the areas senior IR officials will discuss further following yesterday's WRMC meeting in Melbourne; while Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard will next week meet with her Opposition counterpart Michael Keenan on the progress of her substantive bill through parliament.
The Australian Human Rights Commission was forced to impose resource cuts across its departments to cope with a big jump in discrimination enquiries and complaints in 2007-08, the organisation's annual report reveals.
A stationery company that unlawfully sacked its NUW delegate after a bitter strike at the height of pre-election debate over Work Choices has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $12,000 in penalties and $1800 in compensation.
