Thank Work Choices for employment figures say Costello and Hockey, don't says Gillard; CFMEU to run shareholder campaign on global warming, coal miners voted for us, says Howard; Commissioners Hingley and Mansfield leave bench; Massive costs payout to prison guard who won discrimination case; $1 million for Tree of Knowledge; Bus drivers would lose under Liberals, says Della Bosca; SA construction workers win secret ballot order; Timeline for Work Choices updated; and ACTU building article revised.
NSW's Iemma Government will today refer the Tristar redundancy dispute to the State IRC, though it concedes there are questions about the Commission's jurisdiction if the company refuses to participate.
James Hardie will make its first $184 million payment into the Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund within five days, after 99.6% of shareholders approved it last night.
The licenced aircraft engineers' union will next week consider whether to take industrial action at Qantas maintenance facilities, if the company doesn't make a pay offer when the parties meet tomorrow.
Public sector nurses in the Northern Territory will next week begin voting on industrial action, including bans on overtime and non-nursing duties, after rejecting the government's 3% pay rise offer.
Woolworths has lost a bid for an interlocutory injunction to stop a former executive working for Myer after the NSW Supreme Court found there was insufficient evidence of direct competition between the supermarket and department store businesses.
The University of Western Australia has been ordered to pay $20,000 to an academic it suspended without pay over sexual harassment allegations because it failed to provide details of the complaints made against him.
