An outsourced IT service provider has won a declaration from the IRC that it is not bound by a broad range of awards and agreements applying to the employers which contracted out their work to it.
In an attempt to torpedo a perception that AWAs are usually dictated by employers, the Office of the Employment Advocate has highlighted a new report's finding that two-thirds of employers consulted with their employees before drafting the individual contracts.
A Federal Court full bench has confirmed that there is no retrospective operation of the s111AAA provisions in the WR Act that prevent the federal IRC from making a dispute finding for employees covered by state awards or agreements.
Employees reinstated to their jobs by the WA IRC after an unfair dismissal won't be able to also win compensation for lost wages, following a decision by the State's Industrial Appeal Court.
Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith's push for a single IR system in Australia is gathering momentum, with the BCA planning to convene a taskforce on the subject
Coca-Cola has made a record payment of almost $US190m to settle a race discrimination class action brought by black workers who claimed the company had created a two-tier system that kept them at the bottom of the heap.
Speakers from across the IR spectrum expressed support today for a unitary system at a BCA forum on the subject in Melbourne, but many were reluctant to support Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith's position that the corporations power was the best way to get there.
The High Court has handed down its decision in the PP Consultants case, ruling there was no transmission of business when St George Bank closed a branch and appointed a nearby chemist as its agent.
