The Cole Royal Commission has raised new doubts about achieving its December 6 reporting deadline, with its release today of a new discussion paper that requires feedback by December 4.
Industrial agents representing parties in unfair dismissal claims will be barred from making contingency fee arrangements, under new laws proposed for NSW.
The SA IRC has found the dismissal of a manager for alleged firearm offences was unfair, saying the employer tried to destroy the man's credibility to conceal its own procedural failure.
More than 7,000 workers at St George are soon to vote on a new enterprise agreement that provides an 8% pay rise over two years and two new paid rest breaks each day.
P&O Ports and the MUA are close to finalising a new national agreement that provides a 12% pay increase over three years plus productivity-linked bonus payments to some 2,000 workers, converts most casuals to guaranteed wage employees and introduces six weeks paid maternity leave.
The NSW Labor Council has finalised a memorandum of understanding with local governments, which is aimed at preventing councils from trading with contractors that do not provide their workers with adequate pay and conditions.
A major review of South Australia's IR laws has recommended significant changes - many involving extending the state safety net to those workers who have fallen outside it over the last two decades.
The AIRC is expected to issue an interim award for contract call centres this week, in an important deveopment in employment regulation in the industry.
Australia's IR system would be further deregulated, state and federal laws unified, the AIRC weakened, Commissioners appointed on fixed terms, common rule awards scrapped, and existing requirements on employers made voluntary under a eight-year blueprint for IR reform released this morning by the ACCI.
The High Court will test the current definition of "employee", after the LHMU lodged an appeal against an AIRC finding that a worker was a contractor and not an employee at the time he was dismissed.
