Qantas wins orders to halt action by store workers; Ex-Ansett employees likely to get 94% of entitlements: KordaMentha;Hearings begin next month for parental leave inquiry; Burrow and Ridout to be members of Skills Australia; and PM's proposed Parent and Child Centres would incorporate child care.
The Federal Court will tomorrow hear a bid by the AMWU to stay and overturn the interim injunction issued by Justice Shane Marshall against striking Boeing workers last week, while the company has confirmed it is preparing to pursue contempt charges against individual employees and the union.
The CFMEU has been fined $4,000 for pressuring an employer for strike pay over a safety dispute at a Melbourne building site in 2004, in a Federal Court decision that says such behaviour is "a thing of the past".
Employers can make false statements about workplace agreements provided they don't influence employees' votes, according to a full bench of the Federal Court.
Telstra unions to test AWA shift in new deal; Employer/union group lobbies for more skills investment; NZ outstripping Australia on key wages benchmark; CFMEU mining division forms new climate change alliance; Employers turning young workers off when they block MySpace, Facebook: Survey; and Consolidated version of Workplace Relations Act available on Austlii - incorporates Labor amendments.
Proposals by Attorney-General Robert McClelland that would give employers more power to monitor employees' email and internet activity have not yet been provided in detail to key stakeholders.
Employees in New Zealand will have a statutory entitlement to unpaid meal breaks, paid rest breaks, breastfeeding facilities and unpaid breastfeeding breaks under legislation introduced this month.
In the first decision of its kind, an individual employee has won AIRC orders for a secret ballot for strike action, despite the employer's objections that a union is the driving force behind the bargaining strategy.
The Federal Court will tomorrow conduct a full-day mediation in a bid to end the stoppage at Boeing Commercial Airplanes subsidiary Hawker de Havilland's site in Melbourne, after the company today won an extension of an interlocutory injunction that potentially makes individual workers liable for the company's losses of about $1m a day.
