The AIRC has certified a new enterprise agreement for Victoria's Transport Accident Commission that provides about 500 workers with a guaranteed pay rise of 11% over three years and productivity bonuses of up to 5%-a-year.
The decision by former WR Minister Peter Reith to indemnify legal costs for two sub-contractors who unsuccessfully took on the CFMEU (construction division) over freedom of association breaches has cost the tax payer $96,000, Senate Estimates heard yesterday.
The CFMEU (construction division) has signed up three major builders - Barclay Mowlem, John Holland, and Grocon - and more than 100 subcontractors to its 36-hour week claim in NSW, according to state secretary, Andrew Ferguson.
The Bracks Government has promised Victorians that if re-elected on November 30, it will reintroduce its bill to create a uniform IR system that the Opposition defeated in the State's Upper House.
WR Minister Tony Abbott's Victorian workers bill looks doomed, with the Democrats stressing they want "full unification" of the IR system in Victoria and Abbott saying the Government wouldn't countenance such a change.
Appeal lodged against VECCI ruling; AIRC full bench rejects Abbott bid to refer bargaining fee questions to Federal Court; Court issues orders against Gippsland "community protest"; and Cole Commission secretary says extension sought in September.
New aviation player Regional Express has streamlined its employment regulation and provided a 6% pay rise over three years, under newly-certified agreements struck with airline unions, while licenced maintenance engineers have begun talks with Qantas over a new agreement.
The Federal Court has rejected the CFMEU construction and general division's bid for a finding that Royal Commissioner Terence Cole was biased against the union and hadn't accorded it procedural fairness.
Telstra has reached in-principle agreement with unions on a new agreement that the CEPU claims breaks the cost-cutting pattern and focusses on boosting the corporation's efficiency.
