A senior financial market employee who was offered one month's pay plus part of his previous year's bonus when made redundant - but then received nothing because he refused to sign a deed of release - has won a much bigger payout in the NSW IRC.
A WA ALP government would allow statutory individual contracts struck under existing IR laws to run their full term, but only if they met a higher benchmark.
In a major development in Campaign 2000, the metal industry unions have withdrawn the protected bargaining notices that the AiG was seeking to suspend - ending their right to take protected action but at the same time stymieing a test case on the legality of pattern bargaining.
The Federal Court has refused to stop Ansett from again locking out 13 flight engineers, but has warned the airline that a further lockout attempt might leave it open to a breach of contract action.
CFMEU National Secretary John Maitland told the protest meeting outside the World Economic Forum that unions would be continuing their worldwide campaign against Rio Tinto.
An important High Court decision has upheld an employer's liability for a worker's incapacitating stroke - even though it was common ground that her work was not a contributory factor.
In another serious turn in the long-running American-style bargaining dispute at Joy Manufacturing, the company is understood to have brought in workers from Victoria and Tasmania to replace those it locked out.
Victorian public servants will vote later this month on a deal struck between the CPSU and the State Government that will put an end to the Kennett Government's individual contracts regime.
