Royal Commissioner Terence Cole's ruling today rejecting the CFMEU's bias allegations defies logic, according to the union construction division's national secretary, John Sutton.
The RTBU is ramping up its campaign against private rail operator Pacific National after the company allegedly offered hundreds of white-collar workers a 14% pay rise as a trade-off for signing individual common law contracts.
The Federal Government has appointed industrial registrar Peter Richards and ACTU assistant secretary Bill Mansfield as IRC Commissioners, and will soon appoint a replacement for Vice President Tony McIntyre, who retired last month.
The Queensland Police Union has rejected a revised pay offer from the State Government and is opposing a bill that it says will strip police of their right to take industrial action.
The IRC has stymied a union's attempt to sidestep requirements that matters in agreements pertain to the employment relationship and ruled the Atlas Steels judgment is the authority in such cases.
Commissioner Terence Cole has refused the CFMEU's bid for him to disqualify himself on the grounds of bias from making further findings about the construction division's NSW branch.
It's a path most employers do not tread, but AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron is going ahead with his contempt case against six Victorian officials, with a trial date now set.
The Federal Department of Community Services has jointly (with IBM) won the large employer category in this year191s ACCI Work and Family Awards, in recognition of initiatives such as unlimited personal leave, subsidies for school holiday child care and allowing female employees to return part-time after maternity leave.
The AiG has responded to the ACTU's bid for improved redundancy provisions with its own application for award changes - including differentiating between redundancy due to insolvency and redundancy for other reasons.
The IRC has reinstated a worker employed by a company about to go into voluntary liquidation to afford him access to the Government's employee entitlements scheme.
