Qantas maintenance employees in Sydney will determine whether a wage freeze agreement gets up after their Melbourne colleagues voted the deal down, while Ansett MkII and unions have reached agreement on their employee share ownership scheme.
The IRC has issued a draft order to monitor and regulate the workloads of 14,000 public sector nurses in WA, after the ANF claimed health services were being compromised because nursing staff were overworked.
Printing employers are seeking award changes to allow more flexible use of casual employees, after the IRC boosted the casual loading in the main printing industry award from 20% to 25%.
The Victorian government plans to legislate against workplace violence and bullying in an attempt to address the estimated $26 million cost of harassment compensation last financial year.
The NSW IRC has set down principles for making monetary compensation orders under the s106 unfair contracts jurisdiction, while largely upholding a ruling that will net a former Westfield executive close to $1m plus costs, mostly from share options.
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The NSW Law Reform Commission has recommended tighter controls on surveillance of workers to keep up with a technological boom that is rendering workplace privacy laws inadequate.
