Electricity generator and coal producer Loy Yang Power has negotiated a new 17%, three-year deal with unions months ahead of the existing agreement's expiry, in an effort to provide stability before the major shareholder sells its stake.
The Queensland IRC has compensated a maintenance worker after finding that MIM was heavy-handed in the way it handled and dismissed him for refusing to work in its lead smelter.
Now that a buyer has been found for Ansett and redundant employees guaranteed their full entitlements, attention will shift to the wages and conditions deal to be struck with unions.
The Federal Court has ordered the MUA to pay $150,000 in penalties and $60,000 in costs for unlawful boycotts, coercion and harassment when it picketed three ships and delayed their departures.
More than 20,000 Myer Grace Bros employees are voting on a new enterprise agreement which commits the retailer to shifting 20-year-olds onto adult pay rates and gives it some breathing space by delaying the largest of three annual pay increases until the final year.
Extended working hours can only by curtailed effectively by imposing limits such as those proven to work in the Victorian electrical contracting sector, according to a new study prepared for the ACTU's reasonable hours test case.
BHP-Billiton has won a new right to manage its Pilbara iron ore operations, while the WA IRC has dealt a blow to its individual contracts strategy by granting a 20% pay increase and a 6% boost to super contributions to 470 award workers who refused to sign individual deals.
IR amendments introduced to Queensland Parliament by IR Minister Gordon Nuttall, which provide for pay equity and wrest power from IRC President David Hall, have drawn fire from unions concerned at limits imposed on arbitrated awards.
