Patrick's new enterprise agreement is under a cloud, after the MUA rank and file voted it down today in Melbourne and gave it conditional approval in Sydney and Brisbane.
Victorian nurses are expected to lift their work bans tomorrow after the Government agreed to talks, while the State's police have begun a campaign of bans in support of their bargaining claim.
Both sides in manufacturing have been engaged in a war of words over Manusafe's merits or otherwise. Now that they are going to meet next week, what is there to talk about? What is Manusafe? Where did it come from, and what are the competing claims?
In a sign that employers are becoming increasingly anxious to avoid more damaging disputes in the manufacturing sector, the AIG and senior Metal Trades Federation of Unions officials will meet on Tuesday for talks about security of employees' entitlements.
Some 66 AMWU members dismissed by shelving manufacturer Metro Products will return to work from Monday, after workers voted up a peace deal this morning.
The High Court has ruled that a courier company was vicariously liable for injuries its bicycle courier inflicted on a pedestrian, because the courier was an employee rather than an independent contractor.
The IRC has stayed the decision to reinstate some 11 dismissed Hunter Valley No. 1 mineworkers, but has ordered that they be put back on the payroll until the appeal is decided.
The ACTU says changes to unfair dismissal laws that passed through Parliament today discriminate against small business employees, while WR Minister Tony Abbott has also today introduced his bill to improve the minimalist safety net for hundreds of thousands of Schedule 1A workers in Victoria.
