Leading Melbourne workplace relations barrister Stuart Wood has made a blistering attack on High Court Justice Michael Kirby, in an article to appear in tomorrow's Australian Financial Review.
Today's CPI figures will reinforce the moderate wages growth trend, with prices increasing 0.8% in the June quarter and a GST-affected 6% over the past 12 months.
Unions winning public support; RBA paper says changes to wage fixing might be a key contributor to fundamental inflation regime changes; correction to Tasmanian casinos article; US race discrimination claims settle for big dollars; Strippers' union back in IRC; and more.
An IRC full bench has revoked the entry permit of CFMEU WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald for entering sites at prohibited times and failing to give 24 hours notice.
A new representative and lobby group for independent contractors - due to have a foundation meeting tomorrow - aims to help its members avoid engagement with the formal IR system.
Impulse Airlines has abandoned its radical individual employment arrangements for flight attendants, after the IRC today certified a new greenfields agreement with the FAAA.
Power generator and open cut coal mine operator Hazelwood Power has struck a deal with unions that provides stability, substantial productivity improvements and pay rises of at least 30% over six years.
In an important development for non-contract call centres, the ASU is moving towards having the overseas airline industry award prescribed as the benchmark industrial instrument for a Melbourne-based call centre subsidiary of German airline Lufthansa.
