A court has found parties can't contract out of their award and agreement obligations and granted $110,000 in unpaid overtime to an employee who worked double and triple shifts under a consent arrangement.
Militant CFMEU construction division branches in Victoria and WA have failed in a bid to topple national secretary John Sutton, after he secured re-election yesterday.
PM John Howard warned in last night's Great Debate that unions would "make whoopee" if a Beazley Government completed a mosaic of coast-to-coast Labor governments, while the Opposition Leader said his election would present a "historic opportunity" for cooperation between state and federal governments.
Hardware retailer Bunnings Group, now the third largest retail employer, is looking at its options to extend some of the flexibility of its enterprise agreement to employees of BBC and Hardware House, which it recently took over.
An ambulance service was unreasonable in setting a four-year probation period for a trainee officer and should have required only three months, the IRC has found.
The IRC has allowed a worker to proceed with an unfair dismissal claim after ruling that a public sector agency's purported fixed-term contract was so poorly drafted that it could be interpreted as open-ended.
Royal Commissioner Terence Cole has backed down on his insistence that unions comply with a controversial direction he issued on Wednesday, after conceding there were doubts about his power to make the direction.
The Coalition's WR policy, announced today, highlights the substantial distance between Government and Labor IR platforms, but contains little that's new.
