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The Department of Education, Science and Training's 1,800 employees will have access to $100 a week of school holiday child care assistance, while new processes will be introduced to address poorly performing workers, under the organisation's new agreement with the CPSU and MEAA.

Security guards in Victoria will receive a 3.2% work value increase, while crowd controllers' work value has grown to such an extent that they will get a 6.5% rise, following an AIRC ruling.

Seventy-two maintenance workers who took industrial action at a Central Queensland mine last year over what they claimed were appalling camp conditions are facing fines of up to $18,000 each under Federal Court proceedings initiated by DEWR.

ACT public school and TAFE teachers held a half-day stopwork today in a bid to break the deadlock in the AEU's long-running pay dispute with the Territory Government.

AMA says Work Choices medical certificate provisions are flawed; Bird flu could see 60% of workforce absent for up to four weeks: Mercer report; and ACTU calls for inquiry into skilled visa program.

The Howard Government's $83m funding over three years to encourage workplace change in higher education won't focus on key items on the Government's IR agenda - such as fostering direct relationships with employees - until the second and third years of the program.

The Australian Building & Construction Commission has won its first interlocutory injunction, with the Federal Court restraining the CFMEU from picketing and other conduct that has allegedly stopped the erection of a crane at a building site in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg.

Western Australia is considering following NSW in introducing legislation aimed at shielding state public sector employees from Work Choices, while the other Labor states are also investigating the most appropriate protections from the new IR regime.

ABCC targets Tasmanian electricians; Marles secures Corio preselection; and Ballard settlement to charity.

Work Choices has made IR regulation so complex that employers will increasingly spurn it and rely on HR policy to prescribe practices in the workplace, ACIRRT's John Buchanan told the weekend's HR Nicholls conference. And in a separate address to the conference, the MBAV said the next bargaining round is the chance to do non-union deals.