Mitsubishi is pioneering a new way of managing its temporary labour pool, with casual workers' loadings being accrued into a fund they can use if they need time off.
In the latest skirmish between John Holland and the CFMEU (construction division), the Federal Court yesterday refused the company's application for an injunction and secondary boycott damages over industrial action on a tram-track replacement project in Melbourne's CBD.
Parliament's heavy legislative programme means some of the Federal Government's IR bills listed for this week won't now be looked at again until, at the earliest, the sitting period beginning September 5.
HREOC has recommended the Howard Government require employers to report regularly on their employment of people with disability, in an interim report released today.
It's time for farmers' organisations to form a pact with unions with a view to boosting the skills and productivity of the rural workforce and moving away from the "cycle of low pay" that is hampering the sector's development, according to a farming think tank.
Reinstatement order stands in redundancy decision; Government IR ad bill $5 million so far, says ALP; SA teachers put revised deal to government; and ACTU calls for AWA ban for young workers.
The Federal Government's second-wave IR proposals will not, as the Prime Minister promised, end "the era of the select few making decisions for the many". Rather, it will result in a highly complex system of partisan regulation hard to match in the industrialised world, according to an article in the latest Australian Bulletin of Labour.
The Senate inquiry into workplace agreements looks set to inflict a new round of damage on the Howard Government over its' second wave IR agenda, with academic Professor Andrew Stewart highly critical of the OEA's approval processes and young employees testifying of their award entitlements being undercut by AWAs.
High Court reserves on SA police dismissal case, rejects two special leave bids; LHMU targets building manager over cuts to cleaning contract; New job for Farrell; and New officeholders for NSW IR Society.
A full bench of the NSW IRC, led by the President, Justice Lance Wright, today began hearing evidence from a dozen childcare workers at the start of an LHMU pay equity case seeking wage rises ranging from $177 to $540 per week.
