The AiG is pouring resources into preparing manufacturing employers for Campaign 2003, holding briefing meetings and producing a swathe of new literature for member companies.
Queensland teachers consider options in bargaining battle; New tax rule allows immediate employee tax deduction for charity donations via payroll deductions; Rollover deal for Tasmanian casino workers; Labor claims work-life affects childhood development in early childhood paper; and Construction accounts for three in five days lost to industrial action in October.
Worker reinstated after sacking for morning sickness absence; Queensland IRC criticises employer's investigation process before summary dismissal; AIRC accepts 12 months probation reasonable for customs trainee; and LHMU organiser fails to get job back.
An employee sacked for taking time off work to care for his daughter when she contracted an auto-immune disease has won compensation after the Queensland IRC found he was discriminated against because of his family responsibilities.
The NUW has asked the AIRC to reverse its certification of a labour hire company's s170LK agreement that it says fails the no disadvantage test and other statutory requirements.
The AIRC has awarded seven redundant employees more than $65,000 in lieu of reinstatement after an earlier decision found their employer had considered their WorkCover claims in choosing them for redundancy.
The CFMEU construction division has lodged an application with the AIRC to vary two federal ceramics awards to protect employees on leave for emergency volunteer work.
The flight attendants' union is to seek authorisation from its 4,000 long-haul members over the next week for a campaign of protected industrial action if Qantas doesn't make a better pay offer.
The Victorian ETU has had a breakthrough on spreading the 36-hour-week beyond construction, with NECA accepting that the new arrangement will be progressively phased-in over the next three years.
