Thousands of Victorian electrical workers will stop work for several hours on Wednesday as the CEPU (electrical division's) next bargaining round formally begins.
The CFMEU has used the Emwest decision to win important new concessions during the life of an agreement, after the AIRC brokered a deal to avert a strike that would have threatened production in the car industry.
The AIRC has set aside its decision to certify a s170LJ agreement covering about 6,400 CSIRO workers because the ballot wasn't formally closed when the application for its certification was lodged.
In a rare test of s128 of the Workplace Relations Act, an AIRC full bench has refused to restrain the WA IRC from making enterprise orders under the State191s reformed IR Act.
New research launched today has identified Australia's top-performing organisations, including Telstra, Qantas and the Salvation Army, and outlines a nine-point success strategy for managers.
Western Power has secured a new enterprise agreement for more than 2,400 workers, which provides a 12% pay rise over three years, six weeks parental leave and increased redundancy provisions.
The Federal Government will tomorrow intervene in a dispute at a major gas project in Victoria's East Gippsland where a "community protest" - that on-site unions claim not to be organising - continues to halt work.
The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry has floated the idea of a greater role for individual and collective bargaining in prescribing long service leave provisions, instead of relying on the existing portability schemes.
The CPSU is seeking feedback from members in DEWR about a revised bargaining offer from the Department that would boost bonuses paid to high performers and ameliorate proposed reductions in conditions.
The Queensland Government has today introduced new anti-discrimination legislation protecting breastfeeding mothers and parents who need to take time off work to meet family needs.