After a long bargaining stand-off, Westpac and the FSU have cut a deal that pays 24,000 workers a 4% annual increase and provides up to $1,000 a year in free shares.
An NUW organiser who accepted an ex gratia payment of $105,000 from his former employer when he was a delegate has failed to win an injunction against being stood down from his organising duties.
The Queensland security firm that was caught last year by the State's contractor deeming provisions in an historic IRC decision has failed to avoid paying out tens of thousands of dollars to its employees by setting up a new company.
Some 56% of WA workplace agreements across four industries pay less than the award, according to new research that has strengthened the State Government's resolve to repeal the Workplace Agreements Act.
Workplace privacy and surveillance are two key issues to be considered in a Victorian Law Reform Commission inquiry into the capacity of current privacy legislation to deal with advances in technology.
At a time of heated debate over exempting small business from unfair dismissal laws, the IRC has condemned a small business for neglecting "fundamental courtesies and practices" of the employment relationship when it sacked a worker.
The power, gas and water industry has achieved annual labour productivity growth of 7.3% for the past 15 years, but still hasn't reached the OECD average, according to a new Productivity Commission report on the services sector.
An IRC full bench has thrown out an attempt by labour supplier Manpower to overturn the certification of a competitor's agreement that allegedly provided an unfair competitive advantage.
