The Federal Court has ordered the Cole Royal Commission and the Federal Government to pay the costs of a CFMEU organiser's action against the Commission - a sum the union expects to exceed $20,000.
The Queensland Governnment has conceded that its restructuring of the State IRC's administration 18 months ago has failed, with new legislation introduced to Parliament to hand the Commission's administration to the Vice President and create two new Deputy President positions.
Thousands of Victorian electrical workers will stop work for several hours on Wednesday as the CEPU (electrical division's) next bargaining round formally begins.
The CFMEU has used the Emwest decision to win important new concessions during the life of an agreement, after the AIRC brokered a deal to avert a strike that would have threatened production in the car industry.
The AIRC has set aside its decision to certify a s170LJ agreement covering about 6,400 CSIRO workers because the ballot wasn't formally closed when the application for its certification was lodged.
In a rare test of s128 of the Workplace Relations Act, an AIRC full bench has refused to restrain the WA IRC from making enterprise orders under the State191s reformed IR Act.
New research launched today has identified Australia's top-performing organisations, including Telstra, Qantas and the Salvation Army, and outlines a nine-point success strategy for managers.
Western Power has secured a new enterprise agreement for more than 2,400 workers, which provides a 12% pay rise over three years, six weeks parental leave and increased redundancy provisions.
The Federal Government will tomorrow intervene in a dispute at a major gas project in Victoria's East Gippsland where a "community protest" - that on-site unions claim not to be organising - continues to halt work.
The CPSU is seeking feedback from members in DEWR about a revised bargaining offer from the Department that would boost bonuses paid to high performers and ameliorate proposed reductions in conditions.
