A Queensland transport company which was found to have breached freedom of association laws when it dismissed an employee last year has been ordered to reinstate him and pay compensation in a supplementary decision by the Queensland IRC.
In a bid to counter the ACTU's contention that there are limited flow-on effects from living wage increases, the ACCI says a survey it commissioned reveals that three out of 10 firms also paid the rise to over-award employees and two out of ten to non-award workers.
The ACTU has announced plans at its executive meeting today to advance casual rights via a test case and enterprise bargaining and to conduct a national survey of union members to help determine the direction of its organising, campaigning and industrial strategy.
Court awards indemnity costs after landmark exemplary damages ruling; equal pay claim at printing company to proceed; federal Labor abandons language of class struggle in pitch for middle ground; AMWU seeks to cover SDA's car sales turf; and more.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Mount Thorley Operations faces a bill of close to $13m for the lost wages of 82 employees it made redundant in late 1999, after the IRC today ordered it to reinstate five workers - a representative group of the 82 employees.
NSW unions have called for adherence to principles of natural justice in dismissal procedures, after the Carr Government announced it would move to allow immediate suspension of public servants suspected of accessing pornography at work.
The Federal Government has described safety net adjustments as "blunt instruments", and has come out in favour of assisting the low paid via the tax-transfer system in its submission to the IRC in this year's living wage case.
The LHMU is seeking a pay rise of 10% a year and 14 weeks parental leave for the 2,000 or so workers it covers at Tabcorp Holdings' Star City Casino, while the ASU has struck a deal for the company's wagering call centres in Victoria which provides up to 52 weeks of redundancy pay for all employees, including casuals.
In an important move, the AIG has sought leave to appeal against the Federal Court's Emwest decision which effectively opened the door for unions to make extra claims during the life of federal enterprise agreements.
