A worker sacked by controversial meatworks G&K O'Connor has won the right to an unfair dismissal hearing after the IRC accepted that he didn’t sign his AWA - which stipulated a probationary period - until after he'd started work and he wasn't made aware during his interview that he was on probation.
A retrenched state manager has failed to win a redundancy payment that was contingent on him becoming a consultant to his employer, after the WA IRC found he breached his common law fiduciary duty when he reneged on the deal and joined a competitor.
The GST inflation spike has disappeared from the latest quarterly CPI, with ABS data released today showing an increase in prices of just 0.3% for the December quarter and 5.8% for the year.
The CFMEU has won back its representation rights at Rio Tinto subsidiary Comalco's Weipa mine, almost a decade after the company and the AWU convinced the IRC to remove them.
The IRC has given the licenced aircraft engineers' union exclusive coverage of workers at a Qantas site, after finding an AMWU campaign against the airline's labour supplier, Forstaff, cost the company $15m a year in lost business.
The ACTU's blueprint for union renewal, unions@work, has been the catalyst for the CPSU to introduce internal reforms to arrest its declining membership.
A mining company's refusal to allow an illiterate worker any union representation while counselling him prior to his dismissal was a breach of procedural fairness - even though the worker was on an AWA, the IRC has found.
Workers covered by AWAs are much less likely to be guaranteed a wage increase during the life of their agreement then those under collective deals, according to Sydney University IR research body, ACIRRT.
Some 800 maintenance and repair employees at BHP's Port Kembla steelworks are expected to go on strike for 24 to 48 hours on Monday after a stopwork meeting over the company's plans to outsource around 300 maintenance jobs.
