The IRC's Justice Alan Boulton and former Queensland IR Department Director-General Bob Marshman are two of a select group of IR and HR people who received Australia Day honours.
Victorian IR Minister Monica Gould has launched a $500,000 grants program that aims to build better relationships between employers, employees and unions in the manufacturing industry.
OneSteel's Geelong Wiremill has forged a new agreement that pays employees a 4% annual increase, in a deal that reflects a realignment of wages across the former BHP steel operations.
Unions in industries where maintaining production is critical will be at high risk of common law damages claims if they take unprotected industrial action, following a crucial IRC full bench decision.
The coal mining union's national office is set to move in to the MUA's national HQ in Sydney, but leaders of both unions insist it is not the precursor to a formal merger.
SDA legal officer takes East Timor job; Calver is new Abbott advisor; Giles to run new Ansett's HR; Bussell takes HR role at Australian Airlines; and more.
HR Nicholls Society renews call for IRC's abolition; HSUA seeks to cover welfare workers; Court compensates Esso Longford workers, families; UK to bar discrimination on basis of age, religion and sexual orientation; and more.
A Perth solicitor has been suspended for two years and fined $4,000 for misleading a client and seeking "grossly excessive" costs in an unfair dismissal case, following a WA Court of Appeal ruling.
