Some 200,000 Victorian construction workers will get earlier access to their portable long service leave entitlements after unions today accepted an offer from employers.
The papers presented by WR Minister Tony Abbott and the Institute for Private Enterprise's Des Moore to the HR Nicholls Society Conference have now been uploaded to the Workplace Express site, along with the speech by barrister Stuart Wood on former WR Minister Peter Reith's record.
The Workplace Relations Act's agreement-making laws covering corporations are valid, and non-union workers are bound by deals made under those provisions, a full bench of the Federal Court has found.
The IRC lacked impartiality in a recent case involving alleged physical violence by union organisers, reflecting a misplaced community tolerance for criminal conduct in the industrial relations arena, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott told the HR Nicholls Society's 22nd conference in Melbourne on Saturday evening.
The campaign by IR Conservatives against purported bias amongst the Federal Court's former IR Court judges has led to a significant moderation of the court's approach, according to a leading right wing commentator.
After making only one appointment to the federal IRC in its first four-and-a-half years in office, the Howard Government today announced its fifth addition to the bench since December - solicitor Gareth Grainger.
The ALP will introduce tough new outsourcing rules for the public service, end performance bonuses, introduce a service-wide framework agreement, and scrap AWAs if elected to office, according to the party's spokesperson on Public Administration and Government Services, Senator John Faulkner.
A peace deal between the Geraldton Port Authority (GPA) and the MUA that delivers workers a 39% pay increase and the employer substantial flexibilities after a three-year battle has coincided with the GPA escaping a fine for frustrating Federal Court orders to make its stevedoring labour available to all port users.
