Network Ten employees around the country will next week begin voting on a new enterprise agreement that has already been rejected in informal votes in a number of stations.
Mick O'Leary, the MUA's deputy secretary and one of its key strategists during the 1998 waterfront dispute, has announced his retirement from the union after two decades of service.
In the first Toyota agreement to be sealed without industrial action, the company's 3,600 workers have voted up a deal that provides a minimum 15.5% pay rise over three years, improved shift and leave entitlements, and a move to a nine-day fortnight.
After a long bargaining stand-off, Westpac and the FSU have cut a deal that pays 24,000 workers a 4% annual increase and provides up to $1,000 a year in free shares.
An NUW organiser who accepted an ex gratia payment of $105,000 from his former employer when he was a delegate has failed to win an injunction against being stood down from his organising duties.
The Queensland security firm that was caught last year by the State's contractor deeming provisions in an historic IRC decision has failed to avoid paying out tens of thousands of dollars to its employees by setting up a new company.
Some 56% of WA workplace agreements across four industries pay less than the award, according to new research that has strengthened the State Government's resolve to repeal the Workplace Agreements Act.
Workplace privacy and surveillance are two key issues to be considered in a Victorian Law Reform Commission inquiry into the capacity of current privacy legislation to deal with advances in technology.
At a time of heated debate over exempting small business from unfair dismissal laws, the IRC has condemned a small business for neglecting "fundamental courtesies and practices" of the employment relationship when it sacked a worker.
