Tensions with unions over the ALP's plans to keep the ABCC construction watchdog until 2010 might be revived by a new film, partly funded by the CFMEU, to be launched next week.
The NSW IRC has dismissed an unfair dismissal claim by a long-serving recovering drug addict who was sacked for violence at work, finding the employer was not required to instead offer him an opportunity for rehabilitation or reinstatement conditional upon regular drug tests.
The AIRC has refused to include the MUA in an order banning industrial action by workers at a Brisbane stevedore because it was not satisfied that the union was responsible for an alleged refusal to work additional hours.
Employers have today launched a television, print and billboard advertising campaign in support of Work Choices, with the first commercials to be broadcast on television tonight.
Prime Minister John Howard has vowed to continue the Government’s current round of IR advertising despite ALP and union calls to scrap the campaign after two young workers accused an actor in one of the ads of underpaying them.
In its landmark Nikolich decision today, a Federal Court full bench majority has held that stockbroker Goldman Sachs JB Were Pty Limited breached a term of a worker’s employment contract – contained in the company’s HR policy – that it maintain a safe and healthy workplace.
In an important decision, a Federal Court full bench majority has today upheld last year’s Nikolich ruling, in which Justice Murray Wilcox found that stockbroker JB Were’s HR policies were incorporated in a financial advisor’s employment contract.
More than a million fairness test fact sheets on order; Iemma Government warns local government to stay clear of Work Choices, says State might join Etheridge case; Leaked polling shows poor public view of Work Choices inspired Government-funded advertising campaign; and gender pay gap in mining gets wider with seniority.
Royal Automobile Club of Queensland employees are to receive a 4% annual pay rise over three years plus bonuses, improved paid parental leave and higher Saturday loadings, under a new deal with the FSU that goes to a ballot this week.
