Shadow IR Minister Julia Gillard has stepped up Labor's call for former car parts maker Tristar to pay redundancy to employees because they have no work, as the company accused staff of refusing to perform available work.
The AIRC has agreed to hear a challenge to a late unlawful termination claim, even though the employer only objected after the case had already gone from conciliation in the Commission to the Federal Court.
Howard Government to restructure HREOC, amend disability discrimination laws; Qantas purchaser seeks to reassure employees; and Investigation launched into alleged breaches by nursing recruiters.
Gossip in a Queensland police station about a colleague's marriage and the mocking-up of her honeymoon photograph in an office joke book amounted to unlawful sexual discrimination, the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal has found.
The 35 remaining workers at Tristar's Marrickville factory in Sydney will lose their generous redundancy entitlements in February next year and revert to award provisions, following AIRC proceedings today.
Hockey sworn in; Gillard appoints new chief of staff; Corish not standing as candidate for Parkes; New teachers being driven away, AEU survey shows; Work Choices rollback will risk low dispute levels, warns ACCI; and Abbott on Santamaria and IR.
Tristar to remain in business, says it has done nothing wrong; Work Choices corporate status test case before Federal Court next month; Second job not covered by university policy, says tribunal; and Senior UK bank employee fails in discrimination claim.
Unions have generally succeeded in winning support for industrial action in Work Choices secret ballots, with the average "yes" vote at around 88%, according to a survey of the first 102 ballots conducted since their introduction last March.
A further drop in US union membership - to just 12% - will be no comfort to Australian employee organisations, which have based their revival strategies largely on the organising model used by their North American siblings.
