ACIRRT has released a scathing critique of the Productivity Commission's June report on Australia's automotive industry, maintaining its recommendations on IR were based on "conceptually closed and empirically flawed analysis that results in policy recommendations that will be counterproductive if implemented".
AIRC President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has welcomed appointments of new members, but highlighted that overall numbers are still well below levels before the mid-1990s, in an annual report that reveals agreement approval times have doubled to 62 days.
A power worker sacked for alleged theft has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected, after the Queensland IRC refused to accept that his employer had failed to consider his depressed mental state.
A WA nursing home will appeal against AIRC Deputy President Brendan McCarthy191s refusal to designate a benchmark award ahead of an agreement being negotiated.
In what it claims is a major breakthrough in its 36-hour-week campaign, the CFMEU's construction division NSW branch has struck a project agreement with major construction company Westfield that provides for the site to close down for six long weekends a year.
The Queensland IRC has compensated a sales manager for his unfair dismissal, but has refused to include commissions of up to $5,000-a-month in the calculation for lost remuneration.
ETU members in Sydney have stopped work today in support of their full 36-hour-week claim, after plumbers accepted a compromise deal that phases in the shorter week over three years and substantially discounts the pay claim.
Stopwork on Thursday at DEWR; High Court reserves in vicarious liability case; Low control work boosts risk of stress, heart attack; Australia Post disability case begins tomorrow; Rayner appointed to anti-corruption job; and more.
