The IRC has refused to certify non-union agreements for two security companies that maintained that under the terms of the contracts they had won they couldn't afford to pay the weekend award rate for casuals.
Yallourn Energy will write to the President of the IRC, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, seeking a directions hearing for the compulsory arbitration of a new award following a private conference with unions yesterday.
In a move that would substantially broaden the range of traineeships accessible to both employers and employees, the ACCI has applied to the IRC to vary the National Training Wage Award.
In a case left over from the now abandoned breakaway bid by the NSW printing division of the AMWU, the majority of a full bench of the Federal Court has upheld the validity of the Workplace Relations Act's little-used disamalgamation provisions.
The Queensland branch of the CEPU plans to send out another batch of letters to non-union Telstra workers asking them to pay a $400 fee-for-service despite criticism that its action amounts to backdoor compulsory unionism.
Maverick abbatoir operator G&K O'Connor has failed in its bid to shift its employees onto the federal meat processing award, after an IRC full bench found the employer's purpose was to drive them onto AWAs.
Mine workers at BHP Coal's Appin, Cordeaux and Tower collieries in the Illawarra region of NSW will revert to award conditions, after the IRC yesterday terminated the expired enterprise agreements for the three pits.
BHP Iron Ore will continue to be frustrated from offering individual contracts to its mine workers, after the Federal Court today stayed last week's ruling that removed barriers to the individual contracts strategy.
The Victorian County Court has fined the Victorian branch of the AMWU $12,500 over a raft of industrial action taken by maintenance workers at an animal waste recycling plant while their enterprise agreement was still in force.
