Julius Roe, who lost out to Craig Johnston in the recent elections for secretary of the Victorian branch of the AMWU, has been appointed national president of the union by its national council.
The AMWU has won support outside Australia for its battle against Joy Manufacturing, which has locked out its workforce in the NSW southern highlands for three months now.
Senior employment lawyers say employers should review letters of offer that refer to company policy manuals, after a Federal Court full bench found that a redundant worker's employment contract incorporated a redundancy agreement between the company and the printing union.
A senior executive made redundant by Westfield has won access to share options that would net him $1 million, following a New South Wales IRC ruling that his contract was unfair.
Housing in a remote location cannot be counted as part of an employee's remuneration - because there is no market in such areas to provide a proper valuation, according to an IRC full bench.
The AMWU has lost its legal battle to participate in negotiations for new enterprise agreements to cover two groups of workers at Mount Isa Mines, but still intends to challenge its exclusion when the company and the AWU attempt to register their deals.
The Federal Government has flagged that its forthcoming legislation on industrial organisations will remove employee share ownership as a barrier to registering enterprise unions.
The Federal Court has made it clear that the WR Act gave Telstra's unions the tools to prevent the corporation discriminating against employees on collective agreements, despite finding that a management email quarantining AWA employees from redundancy selection was not illegal.
Women in female-dominated industries and professions in NSW will be able to argue they should be paid more if their work is undervalued, after the NSW IRC handed down its equal remuneration principle.
