After a bitter two-year dispute, Yallourn Energy has today won the right to contract out its mining operations, reduce staffing levels and make forced redundancies under a s170MX award arbitrated by the IRC.
The IRC has refused to issue a s127 order to force up to 5,000 Holden employees in Adelaide back to work, but has strongly recommended they go back today and work programmed overtime on the weekend.
WR Minister Tony Abbott says there is no substance to Opposition claims that he is planning to make a number of appointments to the IRC before the federal election is called.
The CPSU plans to move quickly to establish an interim redundancy award for the telecommunications industry, after the IRC today found a dispute between the CPSU, the CEPU and a wide range of telecommunications companies.
Metals unions will consider options including an appeal and changing the Manusafe trust deed after Justice Munro's ruling today that the AMWU could not take protected action in support of its demands for contributions to the trust fund.
In a crippling blow, the IRC has found metal unions cannot lawfully take industrial action in pursuit of the Manusafe trust fund or substantially similar trust funds.
WR Minister Tony Abbott's introduction today of a raft of employer-friendly changes to the WR Act coincides with his recent unfair dismissal amendments coming into effect.
The AMWU has won a s127 order against a Queensland company that locked out its workforce in retaliation for a two-day strike over the union's Campaign 2001 claim.
Wage increases in private sector enterprise agreements have crept up to 3.8% a year in the June quarter, according to a DEWRSB report released today, while agreements registered last year showed a substantial increase in the incidence of paid maternity leave provisions.
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