A full bench of the IRC has reserved its decision in an appeal against a landmark decision that opened the way for thousands of workers with no award entitlement to severance pay to claim it via the Workplace Relations Act’s termination provisions.
BHP’s unionised iron ore workers in the Pilbara are gearing up for their first spate of industrial action since the Federal Court individual contracts case put an end to on-the-ground campaigns, and could start four-hour rolling stoppages from today.
A casual employee who worked at the same hotel for two-and-a-half years cannot lodge an unfair dismissal claim because the business changed hands during that period and he was with the new owners for only seven months, the IRC has ruled.
A seafarer who lost thousands of dollars in wages because the OEA wrongly calculated that his AWA passed the no disadvantage test is unlikely to have any legal recourse, a Senate Estimates committee was told yesterday.
Annual wage increases in major enterprise agreements might have reached a 3.75% plateau, according to a preliminary analysis of major deals registered in the December quarter last year.
In the first major transmission of business ruling since the High Court's landmark PP Consultants ruling last year, a Federal Court full bench has ruled that Telstra awards and agreements did not carry over to work outsourced to Stellar Call Centres.
Some 235 executives at the ABC have won a pay increase of 5% over 12 months, plus a 2% lump sum backpaid more than two years, under a new enterprise agreement struck with APESMA.
