The CPSU plans to move quickly to establish an interim redundancy award for the telecommunications industry, after the IRC today found a dispute between the CPSU, the CEPU and a wide range of telecommunications companies.
Metals unions will consider options including an appeal and changing the Manusafe trust deed after Justice Munro's ruling today that the AMWU could not take protected action in support of its demands for contributions to the trust fund.
In a crippling blow, the IRC has found metal unions cannot lawfully take industrial action in pursuit of the Manusafe trust fund or substantially similar trust funds.
WR Minister Tony Abbott's introduction today of a raft of employer-friendly changes to the WR Act coincides with his recent unfair dismissal amendments coming into effect.
The AMWU has won a s127 order against a Queensland company that locked out its workforce in retaliation for a two-day strike over the union's Campaign 2001 claim.
Wage increases in private sector enterprise agreements have crept up to 3.8% a year in the June quarter, according to a DEWRSB report released today, while agreements registered last year showed a substantial increase in the incidence of paid maternity leave provisions.
High Court's Kirby urges childcare tax deduction; ALP amplifies good faith bargaining policy; CBA fined over armed robbery OHS breach; survey shows epidemic of unpaid overtime among women; and more.
In another blow to the Office of the Employment Advocate, a Federal Court full bench majority has thrown out an attempt to prosecute the CFMEU and one of its shop stewards for alleged FOA breaches and criticised the OEA over its conduct.
In a ruling that underlines the legal dangers for employers who threaten to contract out work, the Federal Court has restrained BP from outsourcing after finding it might have coerced and discriminated against a group of refuellers.
Manusafe could be dead as industrial issue within a week, after the IRC today granted an interim s127 order on the basis of employer argument that unions couldn't take protected action over the trust fund because it didn't pertain to the employee-employer relationship.
