An AIRC member has today found that notices of intended industrial action can be properly served by fax, after another member decided last month that they must be served personally or by registered post.
NSW public school and TAFE teachers have won a 12% pay rise over two years, after a NSW IRC full bench this afternoon handed down a 235-page decision on their special case pay claim and work value case.
Victorian unions will argue against the bid by the private superannuation industry to intervene in the Victorian common rule test case, while industry funds will seek to intervene to oppose the private super interests, when the AIRC begins hearings in August.
A super fund discriminated against a worker who was retired because of a psychiatric condition when it paid his $310,000 retirement benefit to a trustee rather than directly to him, a tribunal has found.
The Bureau of Meteorology has boosted its paid maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks and allowed partners to take up to a week of their personal leave after the birth of a baby, under a new enterprise agreement.
Employers covered by federal awards will continue to have a single national standard for severance payments, after the AIRC today rejected a bid by peak employer bodies for standards to vary state by state to allow for differing long service leave arrangements.
The former personal assistant to the Australian Football League's talent manager is pursuing an unfair dismissal claim, after discovering that her redundant position was being re-advertised in what she says is almost identical terms to the job she used to perform.
The AWU and Rio Tinto have won conditional approval for their Pilbara consent award that shuts out other mining unions, after an AIRC full bench today threw out a bid for industrial regulation to be determined by the WA IRC.
Wage increases in federally-registered public sector agreements hit a six-year high of 4.8% a year per employee in the March quarter this year, while rises in private sector deals eased to 3.9% a year, according to the DEWR.
