Bankwest employees have won guaranteed 4% annual pay rises plus further performance-related rises that will provide an additional 2% for the overwhelming majority, while the bank will now engage all new recruits as seven-day workers, under its first agreement since the 2008 CBA takeover.
The Federal Court has made it clear that employees who are victims of adverse action can be compensated for hurt and humiliation, in a ruling in which it awarded $85,000 compensation to a licensed aircraft mechanical engineer who was purportedly made redundant.
Fair Work Australia will this afternoon hear Patrick's bid to halt MUA members' plans to begin industrial action tomorrow at its four container terminals, while the tribunal this morning began hearing an MUA application to stop the company's plan to withhold the pay of employees who impose bans.
Patrick seeks to halt strikes; MUA’s Crumlin returned; Court rejects non-lawyer; SA the first jurisdiction to introduced harmonised safety laws; Victorian anti-bullying legislation now available; and Reith speech to HR Nicholls Society now available.
AiG amplifies its calls for changes to Act; ABCC joins AiG in opposing ETU framework; Clauses restricting labour hire no barrier to strike ballot; Petition sufficient evidence for FWA to make majority determination; and CFMEU backs Abetz on Johns' party membership.
A newly-released CFMEU-commissioned study of corporate sustainability reporting says that leading Australian listed companies, including Coca-Cola Amatil and BlueScope Steel, are failing to report adequately on their labour practices.
FWA decisions are encouraging unions to strike rather than negotiate, while some unions are inappropriately using the protected action ballot process as a publicity tool, according to Qantas's executive manager of IR, Sue Bussell.
Qantas job cuts a bargaining ploy, says TWU; Paid union meeting clause not a right of entry claim, says FWA; Fifty the new fifty-five; John Holland taks OHS charge to High Court; and UK's Willie Brown to deliver Isaac lecture.
