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Qantas flight attendants vote for wage freeze

Short-haul flight attendants have become the first group of Qantas employees to formally accept the airline's wage freeze offer, after 90% voted in favour in a ballot that closed today.

WA unions win right of entry appeal

The WA Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that would have prevented unions from entering premises where a head contractor employed no union labour or was covered by a federal award.

Annual wage growth easing

Hourly wage rates are now increasing at 3.6% a year (down from 3.7%), after rising 1.1% in the September quarter, according to the ABS.

Test case looms on definition of contractor

The changing law on the definition of "contractor" compared with "employee" will be tested in a full bench appeal in the South Australian IRC.

AMWU alleges BCC breached FOA laws

The AMWU's Queensland branch is seeking interlocutory injunctions against Brisbane City Council, its mayor, Jim Soorley, and two senior executives for alleged freedom of association breaches.

Third-term IR change to be stymied by Senate

The Coalition looks unlikely to be able to proceed with any thoroughgoing IR policy reforms in its third-term, with any change relying on deals in the Senate with an increasingly left-leaning Democrats or The Greens.

Brisbane Council agreement up in the air

The status of Brisbane Council's proposed enterprise agreements is unclear, after blue-collar workers voted down the proposed State agreement but white-collar workers voted up the identical federal agreement.

Industrial action costs Yallourn $100m

Yallourn Energy Pty Ltd says industrial action has cost it $100m in lost production since January last year.

Queensland awards to be revised by next year

Queensland's peak union body says more than 300 Queensland awards will by the middle of next year include the existing legal obligations to provide right of entry to employee representatives.

IRC should be ballboy, not umpire: employer

CCI WA chief executive Lyndon Rowe has delivered a strong rebuke to the IRC, telling a ceremonial sitting that its role should be more akin to that of tennis ball boys or girls, rather than an umpire.

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