In an important ruling that might be appealed to the High Court, an IRC full bench has closed the door on new owners of existing businesses using greenfields agreements.
Queensland public hospital nurses returned to work today after the IRC terminated the QNU's bargaining period with Queensland Health and moved to have the dispute arbitrated.
Protection of entitlements and, for some sectors, shorter working hours will be key claims in the AMWU's next manufacturing bargaining round, in which the union will also seek a 6% annual pay rise over three years.
The Victorian Government's latest attempt to shift low-paid Victorian workers onto the federal award safety net won't win the support of the Opposition, who have the numbers to block it in the Upper House.
In one of the first cases to test last year's amendments requiring the IRC to take into account the size of a business in unfair dismissal cases, the Commission has ruled that a worker made redundant when her employer's business became insolvent was unfairly dismissed.
A senior member of the IRC has criticised employers for deliberately lodging applications for s166A certificates and other similar urgent applications late on Friday afternoons to deny unions natural justice.
A new OHS discussion paper released by the Cole Royal Commission canvasses the establishment of an independent body to rapidly arbitrate major safety disputes on construction sites.
The CFMEU's construction and general division will campaign to have a 36-hour week fully implemented from July next year, after the division's national executive yesterday agreed on its national construction claim.
A female clerk has been awarded more than $7,000 in damages after the Federal Magistrates Court found she had been dismissed because of her family responsibilities.
