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Victorian IR Minister Monica Gould has established a tripartite taskforce to recommend the best way to implement the State Government's IR policy.

An IRC full bench has introduced new award shift penalty arrangements to curtail deliberate tailoring of work patterns by employers to avoid paying penalty rates.

The CFMEU has failed in its attempt to gain access to Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith's letter to Prime Minister John Howard about the Federation Square project in Melbourne.

Telstra's ability to select employees for the 10,000 jobs it plans to shed will continue to be fettered by a 1993 redundancy agreement, after a Federal Court full bench threw out a bid to pare back the deal under award simplification provisions.

The NSW Education Department and the Teachers Federation are nearing a settlement, with a spokesperson for the Federation saying "we're getting close but we're not there yet".

The Federal Court has rejected an attempt by Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith's department head, Peter Shergold, to deny public access to a range of secret reports on waterfront reform.

The staff association at the Suncorp-Metway "megabank" - which had its application to register as an enterprise union refused by the IRC last year - has called for a radical simplification of the provisions for registration of enterprise-based unions.

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A full bench of the IRC, led by its President, Justice Geoff Giudice, has called for a review of the s170CJ costs provisions in the Workplace Relations Act after an employee and his solicitor escaped costs in an unfair dismissal case.

Telstra unions' application for an injunction preventing the corporation from shedding 10,000 jobs is on for mention in the Federal Court today, with interlocutory proceedings expected to be set down for later this week.