More than a thousand meatworkers from one of Australia's largest processors have agreed to return to work under award conditions which offer substantially lower pay than under their previous enterprise agreement.
An IRC full bench has today cleared the way for certified agreements to contain union fee deduction clauses, ending the uncertainty that followed the February ruling in Atlas Steels by Deputy President Ken Ives.
In an important ruling, the Federal Court has found that a shipping line didn't discriminate against its workers when it decided to dismiss them and hire a cheaper foreign crew.
Women now head peak union bodies in a majority of states, after former SA teachers' union leader Janet Giles has become the first woman secretary of the State's peak union body.
A South Australian water utility has substantially boosted female numbers in its engineering area after changing its recruitment processes and introducing new paid parental leave and work/family initiatives.
An employer who retracted an offer of employment because the candidate failed a medical examination discriminated against the candidate on the basis of his impairment, a tribunal has found.
The BabyCo sales employee dismissed because she refused to work under a roster that prevented her attending her children's weekend sporting fixtures has been reinstated after negotiations between management and the union.
Some 400 workers at a components manufacturer serving all four car manufacturers remain on strike indefinitely over an entitlements dispute, after workers voted this morning to stay out.
