PBR bargaining period terminated; AIRC ratifies first postal services industry award; Bench upholds 90kmh average speed requirement under new enterprise deal; and Sydney Airport workers win extension on redundancy stay.
A Crean Labor Government would boost the AIRC's ability to arbitrate bargaining disputes, according to its new Shadow Workplace Relations Minister, Craig Emerson.
The NSW IRC has found that a banana trader unfairly dismissed one of its salesmen by asking him to work for award wages until the market picked up, despite claiming that his employment was not terminated.
Safety net rise from August 1 for low-paid Victorians; AIRC full bench says Defence used independent contractor arrangements to avoid employment relationship; Bench resists Magnet Mart's undertakings on s170LK deal; and new US comparative data shows Australia has strong labour force participation by youth, but not by mature workers.
New measures needed to keep older people in workforce, says ANZ chair; Social capital has workplace benefits, says PC paper; Labor's Emerson to take it up to Abbott; and WA EOT's Johnson moves to Supreme Court.
A disabled Australia Post worker who was forced out of her job because there was nowhere for her to sit down has won an important Federal Court indirect discrimination case.
Some 350 Reserve Bank of Australia employees have won a 4% a year pay increase, plus an extra payment to compensate them for shifting their annual increases from July to November, under a proposed new deal with the FSU.
Five years after Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Coal dismissed them, the AIRC has today ruled that 16 former Blair Athol mineworkers in central Queensland be given preference of employment at the company's new Hail Creek operation nearby.
