No casualisation at Qantas, says CEO; CFMEU secures fifth national deal at Bovis Lend Lease; First s170LJ deal at AFFA goes to ballot; and AIRC upholds sacking of worker who drove trotters while on sick and family leave.
The Business Council has posed a series of questions to chief executives and HR managers to assess their readiness for the ageing of the workforce, in a new guide it has issued today.
Striking offshore oil platform workers employed by four construction contractors to Esso have voted this afternoon to go back to work, after the AIRC on Friday afternoon issued a s127 order that required the oil company's direct employees to cross their picket line.
The WA IRC has rebuffed an attempt by the LHMU to boost Burswood Casino award employees' benefits by incorporating key conditions of the company's AWA workers.
The WA IRC has issued its first enterprise order under the Gallop Government's new IR Act, in a decision likely to give heart to Pilbara mining unions seeking to use the same provisions. The ruling, however, is set to be appealed.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet finished the union movement's triennial Congress on an evangelical note, but he acknowledged that he was disappointed with delegates' response to Opposition leader Simon Crean's policy speech, and called on the union movement to get behind the ALP.
Workplace fatigue could lead to drug use: lawyer; Exhibition showcasing women in the AIRC opens in Sydney; Commission rules 20% casual loading appropriate in glass industry award; and Friendlier workers more productive, says study.
Unions will meet with Qantas on Tuesday, after the airline today announced plans to increase the proportion of casuals and labour hire employees from less than 15% now to 25% in two years.
The AIRC has this afternoon issued an s127 order to end the TWU's stoppages at Melbourne Airport over the use of labour hire employees, but has directed the airline to limit the numbers and hours of the on-hire workers.
