The Industrial Relations Commission has refused to approve a labour supply company's Australian Workplace Agreements that would have left employees 30% worse off than the award.
A 155kg coal mine deputy has failed in a bid to win his job back, after the IRC accepted that weight-related health problems justified his sacking for being unable to work safely.
The IRC has approved two multi-employer agreements, after accepting that the individual employers under each agreement didn't have sufficient resources to manage their own industrial relations.
The Australian arm of internet giant America Online has provided its 54 employees - most of them located in a Sydney call centre - with two weeks paid parental leave under a new non-union enterprise agreement.
The Shop Union has agreed under an enterprise agreement for KMart Garden Supercentres that it won't strike a deal with rival retailers providing penalty-free Sunday work during the life of the SDA-KMart EA.
The LHMU has told the parliamentary inquiry into WR Minister Peter Reith's second wave bill that employers should not be exempted from orders under s127 to stop or prevent industrial action, as the ability for unions to obtain such orders had imposed checks and balances on employers.
After failing to get its non-union agreement up for the bulk of the ABC's 4,000-plus employees, management at the public broadcaster has won a consolation prize, securing IRC approval for a non-union deal for its 200 retail workers.
