The Government's new car industry plan, announced today, has made no link between future assistance and IR reform, with the manufacturing employers' new fighting fund seemingly one of the factors tipping the balance in favour of a more hands-off approach.
The long-running battle over wages and conditions for Queensland furnishing industry employees is set to continue, with a full bench of the AIRC stating that grounds for setting aside a 1999 award "seem irresistible".
The ACT could become the first Australian jurisdiction with industrial manslaughter laws, after the Territory's Government introduced legislation to Parliament today.
An AIRC full bench majority has found that Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Coal unfairly dismissed 16 mineworkers it made redundant four years ago, but has quashed their reinstatement and awarded no compensation.
Centrelink workers will again walk off the job from mid-day tomorrow following the agency's decision last week to sideline the CPSU and offer a non-union deal.
Publicly-listed childcare provider ABC Learning Centres has offered its workers $1,000 in shares for signing up to a new AWA proposal, sparking a dispute with the LHMU over pay and conditions.
An employee who contested a requirement to use a bundy clock all the way to the Victorian Court of Appeal will tomorrow seek special leave to appeal in the High Court.
Workers pursuing their employer for underpayment of superannuation contributions required under the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act can seek a remedy via the NSW IRC's s106 unfair contracts jurisdiction, following a decision last week.
The CPSU has responded positively to the ACT Government's offer of a 10.5% pay rise over 18 months for 7,000 public service employees, plus an increase in paid maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks.
