In a blow to the Cole Royal Commission's bid to bring construction industry stakeholders together this week to improve OHS, the CFMEU has decided not to attend.
The IRC has ruled that a bargaining period ends when the parties are ready to put an agreement to employees, regardless of whether the deal is voted up or not.
In a significant win for Macquarie Bank, two of its former Asia-based employees have lost a multi-million unfair contracts case they launched five years ago.
The Victorian Opposition won't reveal whether it plans to oppose the State Government's new legislative bid to move low-paid Victorian workers onto the federal safety net.
In a decision that protects workers' entitlements when corporates restructure, the Federal Court has found that employees at troubled fashion label, Coogi, were still employed by the primary enterprise when it folded because their transfer to shelf companies was not effective.
The battle over paid maternity leave intensified yesterday, with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward telling a Sydney business audience the entitlement was "dirt cheap" at $350m a year, while Finance Minister Nick Minchin said the $415m to $780m cost would be a "major new burden on taxpayers".
An employer that failed to pay one of its workers for a day that he appeared in the Commission has been ordered to reimburse him and amend his attendance record.
More than 12,000 workers at KFC and Taco Bell retail outlets have won a $44-a-week pay rise and improved unpaid maternity leave entitlements under two identical enterprise agreements certified in the IRC today.
The AMWU has failed in its ambitious bid to win severance payments for casual labour hire employees working on ADI's Minehunter project, in a decision which the AiG says punches a major hole in the ACTU's coming test case claim for redundancy entitlements for casuals.
