Some 530 table gaming employees at the Conrad Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast are planning to disrupt profitable weekend trading by walking off the job for 24 hours at 8pm this evening, while the casino plans to lock out the workers for the following 24 hours.
In a ruling that helped to clear the way for the settlement of the BHP Coal bargaining dispute, the IRC has reinstated two men for conduct that would normally justify dismissal, after taking into account that it occurred in the heat of an industrial dispute.
The Starwood hotel group and the LHMU have struck a new agreement that delivers workers a pay increase of 3.9% to 4.4% a year to more than 2,000 employees while providing the employer with substantial new flexibility.
The NSW Labor Council has temporarily called off industrial action over the WorkCover legislation and sought a meeting with State Premier Bob Carr and IR Minister John Della Bosca in an attempt to get negotiations with the Government back on the rails.
The IRC has brokered a peace deal to end a bitter enterprise bargaining dispute between BHP Coal and mining unions at the company's Central Queensland mines.
In rulings in three jurisdictions, tribunals have thrown out unfair dismissal applications from two workers sacked for fighting, while reinstating a BHP worker because of a lack of witnesses to the fight.
Chubb security guards at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport walked off the job this afternoon, with a non-union replacement workforce taking over their jobs.
Employers have delayed the ACTU's bid for a reasonable hours test case, after the IRC accepted employers' argument that the union peak body should first establish a case under s107 for referring it to a full bench.
The federal Government appears to have won the crucial backing of the Democrats for its transmission of business legislation, after the minor party said it supported giving the IRC the power to transmit agreements to new employers. The minor party has also revealed its support for the Government's Registered Organisations Bill.
