The Victorian branch of the ANF has today launched a campaign against a Government plan to replace current nurse-patient ratios with a computerised rostering program that the union says will increase workloads and drive nurses away from the public health system.
Pacific National is waiting for unions to respond to a proposal on driver-only arrangements for its NSW train drivers, which it says is the only issue standing in the way of an in-principle deal for more than 3,000 rail workers.
In a s106 ruling in a partnership case, the NSW IRC has ordered the owner of a recycling yard to pay his former business partner more than $315,000 after finding that the contract between the two was unfair.
Some 175 former Woodlawn mineworkers look certain to receive $5m in outstanding entitlements, after the NSW Opposition vowed to support special legislation introduced today by the Carr Government to overcome a court decision that stymied the payout.
Four employees of a failed company can seek redundancy payments in the AIRC without getting the permission of a court, following an important full bench ruling.
Employers who wish to avoid the AIRC using private arbitration provisions to issue interim restraining orders should review the wording of the dispute settlement provisions in their agreements, after a full bench today upheld the Commission's power to make such orders.
An AIRC full bench has allowed the AMWU to seek a new award regulating WA's labour hire industry, after rejecting an attempt by labour supplier Select Industrial to restrain the State Commission from hearing the application because it potentially overlaps with its federal award.
The lengthy dispute between Grocon and the CFMEU over a site agreement for the MCG redevelopment project has been formally resolved, with the AIRC agreeing to certify a new deal this afternoon.
The on-going Pilbara battle between Rio Tinto and the state-based AMWU, CEPU and CFMEU moves to the federal AIRC next week, with the mining giant seeking to restrain the State IRC from continuing to hear the unions' bid to improve award workers' pay and condition.
