A country abattoir that maintained it had no direct employees has avoided an unfair dismissal claim, with the AIRC finding a labour hire company was the sacked man's real employer.
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The CFMEU (construction division) has failed in its initial bid to extend to daily hire employees the right to notice and consultation when facing dismissal or redundancy.
The Federal Court has confirmed that employers cannot contract out of an award, in a decision that found two TCFU members were underpaid for work they performed six years ago.
The AIRC has certified a new enterprise agreement for Victoria's Transport Accident Commission that provides about 500 workers with a guaranteed pay rise of 11% over three years and productivity bonuses of up to 5%-a-year.
The decision by former WR Minister Peter Reith to indemnify legal costs for two sub-contractors who unsuccessfully took on the CFMEU (construction division) over freedom of association breaches has cost the tax payer $96,000, Senate Estimates heard yesterday.
The CFMEU (construction division) has signed up three major builders - Barclay Mowlem, John Holland, and Grocon - and more than 100 subcontractors to its 36-hour week claim in NSW, according to state secretary, Andrew Ferguson.
The Bracks Government has promised Victorians that if re-elected on November 30, it will reintroduce its bill to create a uniform IR system that the Opposition defeated in the State's Upper House.
WR Minister Tony Abbott's Victorian workers bill looks doomed, with the Democrats stressing they want "full unification" of the IR system in Victoria and Abbott saying the Government wouldn't countenance such a change.
