The Victorian Government's new Workplace Rights Advocate has launched its first investigation into union complaints that a cleaning and catering contractor is using Work Choices to try to increase hours and cut casual and part time loadings.
The TWU's NSW branch has lost an application to stay the AIRC's first order against industrial action under Work Choices, in a case that affirms the new law’s power over state-registered unions.
Woolworths was entitled to ban a long-serving employee from wearing a nose stud at work, despite failing to enforce its policy for a decade, an AIRC full bench has found today.
Federal Government financial assistance for workers pursuing unfair dismissal claims will be limited to employees on average weekly earnings of $915.70 ($47,745 a year) unless they can qualify for "special consideration," according to details of the program released on Friday.
The ACTU claims ABL State Chamber is advising its members to blame the Howard Government if Work Choices forces them to make unpopular changes in the workplace, but the employer organisation says the union peak body is wrong.
Tasmanian IRC rebuffs Canberra bid to delay wage case; First AIRC listing of dismissal claim under Work Choices; Submissions close next month for NSW Work Choices inquiry; Former Ansett workers receive another payment; and NSW inquiry line getting thousands of Work Choices complaints: Della Bosca.
After failing to reach agreement during six months of negotiations for a new three-year enterprise deal, about 300 doctors working in Victorian public hospitals will next week stop work to discuss the next steps in their campaign.
Victorian unions are maintaining their call for the Bracks Government to reverse the State's referral of industrial relations powers to the Commonwealth as the ALP finalises its policies for this year's State election.
