An Australian Air Express agreement clause that prescribed wage rates for third party labour hire employees pertained to the employment relationship, an AIRC full bench majority has ruled.
AIRC President seeks to avoid conflict between award and legislative super obligations; Commission halts use of contractors for dismissal conciliations; AIRC starts hearing ABC appeal; OEA to have new agreement approval processes in place by end of year; Victorian churches hold ecumenical service in protest against second wave plans; States sponsor "fair go" conference to highlight second wave plans; and Tim Lee to take up top job in Industrial Relations Victoria.
The SA IRC has endorsed a new consent severance pay deal struck between the State's peak union and employer bodies, but in a curious result, it won't have test case standing.
Workers on major construction projects in WA's Dampier-Karratha region have gone out for the day following a rally this morning at Dampier to protest the Howard Government's second wave IR plans, as the union week of action builds momentum.
Liberal council meeting opposes IR takeover; Federal public sector agencies failing to plan for workforce needs; and pharmacies working toward template AWA.
It would be a "hollow, spineless" IR system that would leave workers to the cost and risk of trying to vindicate their employment rights at common law in the ordinary courts, according to the ANU's Professor Phillipa Weeks.
Major building sites across Melbourne's CBD and inner suburbs are expected to close down next Thursday as unions hold rallies around Australia to protest against the Howard Government’s IR changes.
NSW's Liberal leader John Brogden today said he had no qualms about the Howard/Andrews sweeping federal IR package, and confirmed he would cede NSW's IR powers to Canberra if he won office.
