Eureka flags on building sites may breach guidelines, says ABCC; WA sends 25,000 fairness test warning notices; and ACCI rejects worker advocacy centre plan.
The Victorian nurses union is to test Work Choices' pattern bargaining prohibition on secret ballots for strike action after about 1,500 members yesterday voted unanimously in favour of applying to the AIRC for work bans, including possible bed closures in public hospitals.
In the largest ever secret ballot for industrial action under Work Choices, CEPU members at Australia Post have voted for strike action, but the union is offering further talks with management and seeking changes to the ballot process.
A Federal Court full bench majority has found an AIRC member failed to accord procedural fairness to a worker when he took 12 months to decide that his "Bart Simpson defence" for his conduct at an out-of-hours work function lacked credibility and was evasive.
A new agreement by Labor State and Territory leaders on national schools policy is vague about introducing new methods of performance pay for teachers, but the AEU says its input to the deal was "peripheral".
A radio station that claimed to have only 52 employees and provided statutory declarations to back that up will have to face an unfair dismissal claim after the AIRC ruled it didn't do enough to show it was below Work Choices' 100-plus exemption threshold.
Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has granted a request by the ANF's WA branch to amend the Work Choices regulations to allow it to apply for federal registration in its own right.
