The Federal Education Minister, Julie Bishop, revealed today that two higher education institutions might have failed to meet the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements, and could face losing millions of dollars in Commonwealth grants.
Victorian IR Minister Rob Hulls today launched the State's new Workplace Rights Advocate's office, releasing research showing 70% of workers accepted their last job without any negotiation on terms or conditions.
Hundreds of Qantas maintenance workers protested to keep their jobs at Sydney and Melbourne airports today, after the airline lost a s127 application in the AIRC.
South Australia has become the second state after Queensland to reject pleas from Canberra to halt its State Wage Case until the Fair Pay Commission makes its first determination in Spring.
Centrelink has escaped becoming the first prosecution under new workplace surveillance laws after NSW prosecutors baulked at uncertainty about whether the State legislation applies to federal agencies.
Wage growth in federal enterprise agreements has reached an eight-year high of 4.5% a year, due to surging pay rises in the public sector, particularly in education.
The AIRC has called off tomorrow’s expedited unfair dismissal hearing for CFMEU shop steward Peter Ballard, after workers on Leighton Kumagai’s underground section of the Perth-Mandurah railway project refused to end a strike that began on Friday.
A betting person would put money on the answer being "yes" to the crucial question of whether key planks of the Work Choices regime are laws "with respect to corporations", according to a Sydney barrister.
The NSW IRC has today established a new right for regular casuals to convert to permanent employment, which will trigger a rush to insert the new standard into State awards before the Work Choices Act is due to take effect late this month.
The road to Canberra has been cleared for AWU national secretary Bill Shorten, with today's announcement by the ALP's Bob Sercombe that he was pulling out of the preselection race for his safe federal seat of Maribyrnong.
