Queensland health unions are meeting today to consider putting the government's latest bargaining proposal to the vote despite saying the revised offer, with restructured pay instalments, is a lot of "smoke and mirrors".
The beleaguered Democrats have lost an IR and work advisor who had been heralded as broadening the party's IR agenda to embrace work and life issues and greater protection of workers at the margins.
The CPSU has won an application to boost severance pay entitlements in two public service awards by as much as 40 weeks, after an IRC full bench found an anomaly between federal public sector awards.
A full bench of the Queensland IRC this week began hearing the Queensland Council of Union's application for a new redundancy standard that doubles severance pay to 16 weeks, extends entitlements to long-term casuals and removes the small business exemption.
In the final chapter in the Yallourn Energy battle that that led to blackouts in parts of Victoria, CFMEU workers have voted up a deal under which the company will outsource its La Trobe Valley mining operations to the Roche Thiess Linfox consortium.
