The President of the NSW IRC, Justice Lance Wright, has directed the Police Association of NSW and the State's Police Service into further talks, after police this morning began implementing work bans.
Trade union leaders will be among the mourners tomorrow at the funeral of former ACTU president Cliff Dolan, who died at home on Thursday night after a long illness. He was 80.
More than two years after it came to power, the Tasmanian ALP has got an IR bill through the State's Upper House, but it's a gutted version of the original.
Just six months after the IRC terminated the bargaining periods covering Caltex's oil refinery in Kurnell, Sydney, the AWU is again gearing up for protected action.
A company that sacked its $300,000-a-year MD and offered him a $100,000-a-year consultancy acted unfairly, because the offer would have deprived the man of getting a job with a new employer on a similar salary to his old one, a court has found.
A new enterprise agreement for national hardware chain Bunnings moderates a highly flexible hours regime, after the company recognised the arrangement had become become unpopular with its 6,400-strong retail workforce.
In an internal legal drama, a tipstaff/research assistant to a NSW Supreme Court judge who alleged she was harassed and bullied by his associate has won an unfair dismissal case in the NSW IRC.
In a significant development in the STP lost entitlements case, the AMWU has won a dispute finding against Southcorp - which has had nothing to do with the employees involved for more than two years - and against the STP asset-holding companies.
