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OEA defends AWAs at Senate's agreement inquiry

Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain has defended his office and the AWAs it approves from union and academic claims of exploitation in submissions to the Senate inquiry into industrial agreements.

Family First Senator calls for penalties inquiry

Family First Senator Steve Fielding today called for an inquiry into penalty rates, including how to compensate workers who could lose overtime and shift allowances under the Federal Government's second wave industrial legislation.

Queensland might broker national approach to state safety net rises

If the Howard Government blocks the ACTU's 2006 Living Wage claim, the Queensland Government might bring the states together to look at ways to ensure nationally-consistent rates of pay for workers remaining under the state systems, Queensland IR Minister Tom Barton said today.

John Holland serves bargaining notices on CFMEU

In a reversal of the way the game is usually played - and something WA CFMEU (construction division) secretary, Kevin Reynolds, says has never happened to his union before - the John Holland Group has today initiated bargaining periods against the CFMEU on two projects in Perth.

Big-bang bargaining bill should be law next month

It's the big one that has largely slipped under the radar. Sandwiched between the Federal Government's tough Cole-based construction legislation and its looming second-wave laws, the Better Bargaining bill went through the Lower House last fortnight with no fanfare from the Government and with little comment from the unions. Yet the bill makes major changes to federal bargaining laws, including allowing for lawful union bargaining to be stopped mid-dispute, and severely limiting unions' ability to pursue common claims.

High Court to hear Amery case

A full bench of the High Court - including new appointee, Justice Susan Crennan - will next month hear an appeal in the long-running Amery indirect discrimination case.

Combet and Andrews battle over living wage case

A showdown is looming over the ACTU's 2006 living wage claim, with unions committed to forging ahead with it while Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews insists that the 2005 safety net ruling will be the last.

Unions take Boeing dispute international

The AWU is making an international issue of its four-month-old dispute at Boeing's RAAF maintenance base at Williamtown in NSW by linking it with a strike by 18,000 Boeing aircraft machinists in the United States.