Victorian public servants have overwhelmingly endorsed a deal struck between the State Government and the CPSU that re-establishes core service-wide entitlements and puts an end to the Kennett Government's individual contracts regime.
The transmission of business provisions in the Workplace Relations Act should only apply to awards and not to certified agreements or AWAs, according to key employer organisation, the AiG.
Westpac IT employees who refuse to move to an outsourced provider will be entitled to 50% of their redundancy payment if they can't be redeployed within the bank, after the IRC partially rejected Westpac's bid for exemption from its redundancy obligations.
Officials of the Victorian branch of the AMWU - no strangers to pickets and strikes, as many a manufacturing employer could testify - are today unable to enter their own offices due to a dispute involving clerical employees.
The Yallourn Energy bargaining dispute spilt into the Victorian Supreme Court, Federal Court and IRC this week, as the three main Latrobe Valley power stations launched damages claims against the CFMEU (mining & energy division) and individual workers, and the power unions failed to stop the Commission issuing orders terminating the Yallourn bargaining periods.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) has pinpointed metalliferous mining as a possible expansion target under the ACTU's "use it or lose it" coverage principles.
Employers nominated for next Wednesday's ACCI Work & Family Awards have given their workers significant control over their working hours, according to one of the five judges of the awards.
