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News in brief, February 28, 2007

Hockey to address National Press Club today; New way to make online submissions to Fair Pay Commission; No automatic liability for negligence by contractors, says High Court; and Casualisation of academic staff targeted by NTEU.

Labor's retro IR policies a threat to interest rates, says Prime Minister

Prime Minister John Howard has used an address to the Menzies Research Centre this evening to paint the ascendant Labor Opposition as a captive of the union movement that would put pressure on interest rates by reinstating a centralised wage-setting system.


OWS also lines up against Heinemann

First the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate found Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd was wrong to refuse to pay workers their ordinary time wages after they put on overtime bans during a bargaining dispute, now the OWS has launched legal action in the Federal Court to recover the employees' pay.

DIAC employees to vote on new three-year deal

Some 6,500 Department of Immigration and Citizenship employees will receive a guaranteed 12.5% pay rise over three years under an agreement negotiated with the CPSU that is still to be put to a final vote.

Heinemann got strike pay law wrong; Work Choices escalated dispute, says Victorian Advocate

Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd incorrectly interpreted the Work Choices prohibitions on strike payments when it refused to pay workers who engaged in protected bans on overtime, while the "counterproductive" laws were partly responsible for escalating the bargaining dispute into a 48-day strike, Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate Tony Lawrence has found.

Telstra case to test private arbitration

Telstra will tomorrow try to convince an AIRC full bench that private arbitrations of disputes must be conducted in strict legal terms, largely without considering notions of industrial fairness.

15% growth in employers of choice for women

Organisations that have achieved equal numbers of men and women in executive roles and provided allowances to cover car parking costs in the final trimester of workers' pregnancies are among 131 employers of choice for women in 2007.

News in brief, February 26, 2007

Bonus scheme excluded when calculating whether salary within unfair dismissal income cap; 5% of labour force underemployed, says ABS; and Other countries looking to 457 visa model, says paper