Unions representing BHP Iron Ore workers have dropped their appeal against the Federal Court finding that the company's individual contracts push was lawful, and will attempt now to win their battle on the ground and in the State IRC.
NSW IR Minister John Della Bosca has announced plans to ensure annual leave for award-covered part-time workers is based on their usual pattern of working hours.
The ACTU will go ahead with plans to run a test case on parental leave for casual employees despite support from peak employer group the ACCI for the bulk of its claim.
An incentive package for 600 employees of a business sold by AMP doesn't match inducements offered by other large finance employers in similar circumstances, according to the FSU.
The US EEO Commission has begun legal moves to stop an employer's secret genetic testing of injured employees, arguing that it breaches disability discrimination laws.
In what is believed to be the first refusal under the WR Act of an application for a pre-industrial action secret ballot, the IRC has ruled that there must be sufficient evidence of opposition to industrial action to justify a ballot.
IR practitioners have been surprised by an apparent lack of understanding of the nature of ambit claims by WR Minister Tony Abbott in his first address to the IRC.
In an important boost for the ACTU's push for unions to target non-union "freeloaders" by charging bargaining fees, a senior member of the IRC has ruled that a bargaining fee clause in hundreds of enterprise agreements is lawful.
WA's new Gallop Labor Government will move quickly to fulfil its key IR election promise and get its Workplace Agreements repeal bill into Parliament, according to the man expected to be the State's new IR Minister.
