The Federal Court has today found that the Victorian Government committed two breaches of freedom of association obligations when it refused to engage a demolition contractor on a gasworks remediation site in 2003.
AEU seeking rule change to cover new Australian Technical Colleges; Nationals call for early release of second wave details; Further hearing for Joe McDonald's bid to have permit returned; AIRC says ACTU safety net claim would be handled in the usual way; and PM overestimating real minimum wage increase during Howard Government's term, says Labor.
The ACTU will lodge another minimum wages claim with the AIRC this week, seeking a final safety net increase of around $23 a week before the Federal Government strips the Commission of its powers to set pay rates.
A Federal Court full bench today quashed an AIRC full bench finding that a former Defence Department contractor was an employee for the purposes of an unfair dismissal claim.
The building industry taskforce intends to use its new coercive powers to reopen investigations previously closed because of a lack of evidence, its second yearly report reveals.
CFMEU seeks compensation for high fuel prices; Ratio of HR practitioners to employees on the rise; and Telstra unions to run campaign against job and service cuts.
The NZ National Party will reinstate parts of its radical deregulatory 1991 Employment Contracts Act - which became a model for the radical Kennett and Court IR reforms in 1992 and 1993 - if it takes office on September 17.
University deal is one of first to comply with HEWRRs, says union; Only 16% of employers have mature-age workers policy; US statistics bureau reveals 10 most dangerous jobs; and unions say Liberals, not taxpayers, should pay for advertising campaign for second wave IR changes.
John Lloyd, currently a senior member of the AIRC, will head up the new construction watchdog, the Australian Building & Construction Commission, which starts operating on October 1. Current building taskforce director Nigel Hadgkiss will be one of Lloyd's two deputies.
