Star City casino workers in Sydney have won a 9% pay rise over two years, a range of family-friendly provisions and - in a first for private sector hospitality - six weeks paid maternity leave.
Changing work patterns, including the growing use of insecure forms of employment, could increase accident rates and other OHS problems, according to two new European reports.
The battle between the NSW branch of the ETU and the National Electrical Contractors' Association over the employer organisation's bid to significantly vary the state electrical award is now in the hands of NSW IRC Deputy President Peter Sams for conciliation.
WA's top industrial court has overturned a ruling by a State IRC full bench that had opened the way for sacked executives to claim in the tribunal for shares and options they were entitled to under their employment contracts.
The CFMEU (construction division) has lost the latest round in its five-year bid to extend its coverage into the AWU's traditional turf of civil and mechanical engineering, but will keep the long-running legal battle going.
A NSW IRC full bench has upheld a decision to reinstate a sacked worker, after taking into account his promise to resign his union delegate role to prevent further conflict with management.
The ballot for the NUW elections opens today, coinciding with legal action by the NSW branch over allegations that union resources have been used to fund the campaign.
The Federal Court has ruled that the AMWU national council had the power to suspend the Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston and appoint an administrator in his place.
About 150 workers at a not-for-profit enterprise will receive six weeks paid parental leave for both parents of a baby, in an agreement provision that the parties say is a first.
