The ASU has thrown an obstacle in Virgin Blue's path, after it imposed a clerical award as one of two designated awards to underpin a highly-flexible single-union call centre agreement between the airline and the TWU.
The NSW Court of Appeal has found that a subsidiary of publisher Fairfax did not breach its duty to provide a safe place of work to a young female advertising sales employee who was sexually assaulted while canvassing for the company.
The ASU and US-based call centre company Sitel have struck a two-year deal that will deliver about 300 Sydney employees who perform to target a minimum 5.5% pay rise a year and penalty rates.
BHP Coal workers in Queensland are preparing to walk off the job again on Sunday night as the protracted bargaining dispute there fails to come any closer to resolution.
A full bench of the NSW IRC has rejected a bid by employer organisation Australian Business Limited to strip back the State pastoral industry award to match its federal counterpart.
The Democrats look likely to support WR Minister Tony Abbott's proposed legislative package to boost protection for up to 300,000 low-paid Victorian workers.
The full seven-member bench of the High Court has rejected attempts by a coal mining company to limit the IRC's role in resolving disputes, ruling that the Workplace Relations Act's allowable award matter provisions do not apply to dispute resolution procedures in certified agreements.
A company which offered to double the salary of a female transsexual employee if she reverted to living and dressing as a man has been found by a tribunal to have dismissed her because of her transgender status, in the first such ruling.
In the latest embarrassing setback for Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger, the Federal Court has awarded costs against two subcontractors called by the OEA as witnesses in a freedom of association case.
