Employer wins award variation to avoid backpay claim; discriminatory provision leads to refusal to certify Electrolux deal; Fary returns to private sector; WA Greens pressure Labor on IR reforms; and more.
Some 4,000 Ansett MkII employees will share 5% of profits and a $4.2m pay rise after 24 months, under a greenfields agreement certified by the IRC today.
Medibank Private and the CPSU have resolved a year long enterprise bargaining dispute, reaching an agreement that secures a 6.5% pay increase and preserves overtime rates for around 1,000 workers.
An IRC full bench has refused to join applications for minimum wage adjustments for Victorian Schedule 1A employees to the ACTU's living wage application.
FCU NSW branch senior industrial officer Alastair Macdonald will become a Commissioner of the NSW IRC from February 2 next year after 28 years service with the union.
The NSW Government has belatedly released the Labour Hire Taskforce report, but hasn't taken up any of the recommendations to increase regulation of the industry.
Docks productivity declines; ABC presenter didn't resign, says IRC; hearing dates set down for Cole Commission, and reasonable hours case and living wage case.
The IRC has certified each of Brisbane City Council's State and federal agreements, after rejecting union arguments that a valid majority hadn't been reached for the State deal.
The IRC has endorsed the reasonableness of Qantas's "zero tolerance" drugs policy and upheld its dismissal of an international flight attendant for breaching it.
Qantas gears up for big maintenance dispute; WA IRC president speaks out; allegedly ridiculed gay teacher allowed to proceed with discrimination claim; and strippers' union application goes to hearing.
