In a major victory for the metal unions' employee entitlements campaign, Maintrain workers have won a deal that guarantees their past entitlements and ongoing annual leave entitlements via bank guarantees and future long service leave entitlements via a trust fund.
WR Minister Tony Abbott's bill to boost the minimum conditions of 250,000 low-paid Victorian Schedule 1A employees is looking increasingly unlikely to pass through Parliament without heavy amendment, with the Democrats moving toward insisting that the Government protect them by providing for common rule awards.
An IRC full bench has upheld a ruling that an employee did not breach her duty of trust to her employer when she failed to disclose a decade-old work injury.
Maintrain dispute goes into third day of Hawke-guided talks; appeal court says refusing reference could increase dismissal damages; IRC takes stick to violent employer; Commission supports Ansett sacking over racist remark; NSW to proceed with contractor deeming laws; and more.
The ACTU has revealed it is considering running a test case to provide regular casual workers with the right to convert to permanent employment, following the release of a new report by a young workers' advocacy group recommending better protection for casuals.
The nursing dispute in Victorian public hospitals is over, after ANF members today supported an IRC-brokered resolution of the nurse to patient ratio issue.
TCFU national secretary Tony Woolgar has today won a court battle to stop the union's Victorian branch from withholding hundreds of thousands of dollars of affiliation fees.
Energy supplier Country Energy has agreed to provide its female employees with 12 weeks paid maternity leave, after previously giving parents no paid leave.
The newly-formed Federal Magistrates Court has made its first agreement directly with employees, while Family Court judges' associates have moved off AWAs and onto a union agreement.
