A former managing director of a mortgage broking operation has won an unfair contract case, after the NSW IRC found that his employer failed to comply with promises and inducements it made on engagement.
The peak manufacturing employers' group has developed a new no extra claims clause for insertion into agreements, as the latest plank of its response to the federal Court's Emwest decision.
The Finance Sector Union is seeking a 5.5% guaranteed annual pay increase, enhanced severance entitlements and new restrictions on engaging labour hire workers, in its Commonwealth Bank bargaining claim.
A worker accused of having accessed pornographic internet sites at work has been reinstated after the IRC found major flaws in his employer's investigation process.
While BHP-Billiton maintains it is considering all IR options for its Pilbara operations in the face of the changing Western Australian laws, insiders say the company has fewer choices than its rivals, and is in a difficult strategic position.
Network Ten employees around the country will next week begin voting on a new enterprise agreement that has already been rejected in informal votes in a number of stations.
Mick O'Leary, the MUA's deputy secretary and one of its key strategists during the 1998 waterfront dispute, has announced his retirement from the union after two decades of service.
In the first Toyota agreement to be sealed without industrial action, the company's 3,600 workers have voted up a deal that provides a minimum 15.5% pay rise over three years, improved shift and leave entitlements, and a move to a nine-day fortnight.
