A dispute over a contractor employing its eight workers on AWAs has again shut down a major gas compression station construction project in Victoria's East Gippsland.
The AIRC has today certified a new enterprise agreement for 1,100 air traffic controllers employed by Airservices Australia, ending a protracted bargaining dispute.
The new head of the Interim Building Taskforce, the National Crime Authority's Nigel Hadgkiss, has told Workplace Express he comes to the job with no baggage and will begin by talking with all industry stakeholders.
The NSW IRC has allowed two teachers to seek damages in the s106 unfair contracts jurisdiction for psychological injuries they allegedly suffered as a result of a sexual abuse investigation.
The NSW IRC has described as "rather curious" a union's representation of a casual worker who was resisting her employer's attempts to move her to a permanent position.
A non-union collective deal that allows for annual leave to be cashed in and exempts from its reach managers and workers on more than $30,000 fails the no-disadvantage test, the AIRC has found.
Opposition introduces bill to protect workers who take emergency services leave; SA building workers go out; Kingham back in court in December; Welcoming for new AIRC Vice President on Monday; Isaac to open Sir Richard Kirby Archives tomorrow; ACTU's Marles says AIRC critical to Australian culture; and more.
ACIRRT has released a scathing critique of the Productivity Commission's June report on Australia's automotive industry, maintaining its recommendations on IR were based on "conceptually closed and empirically flawed analysis that results in policy recommendations that will be counterproductive if implemented".
