The SDA and department store Daimaru have struck a redundancy agreement, ahead of the company's closure of its Melbourne store, that provides more than 800 employees with two weeks pay per year of service, uncapped.
The warring camps in the CFMEU's construction and general division have settled their differences, but are declining to reveal the terms of the deal until the ink is on the paper.
The Bracks Government has rejected federal funding for a massive Commonwealth Games construction project, after WR Minister Tony Abbott insisted the cash was dependent on implementation of IR conditions.
Australia's four car manufacturers will today seek permission to sue the AMWU, ETU and BHP workers over the picket line at the company's Western Port plant in Victoria that is blocking steel supplies.
In a crucial long-running case on family responsibilities and indirect discrimination, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found that a government department was unreasonable in not allowing a woman with a sick child to work from home two days a week.
Queensland nurses have walked off the job in a series of rolling stoppages at more than 20 public hospitals this week in a bid to win better pay and conditions in enterprise bargaining negotiations with the State Government.
ANZ Bank has lost an appeal against a decision that it unfairly dismissed a long-serving worker for serious misconduct, after an IRC full bench upheld a ruling that it had failed to adhere to its own disciplinary policies.
The Perth IR consultancy that is currently the only agency involved in the Office of the Employment Advocate's AWA fast-tracking pilot has lodged its first individual contracts for approval under the scheme.
The federal Opposition says WR Minister Tony Abbott should seek legal advice about whether Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger is breaching his statutory duty with a new AWA fast-tracking program.
