Work Choices will place additional demands on AIRC members and increase full bench cases in the short term, but it is still too early to say what the overall impact the new IR laws will have on the Commission's case-load, according to the tribunal's president, Justice Geoffrey Guidice.
Star City casino workers have voted up a new three-year agreement that guarantees an 11% pay increase and introduces a bonus system that provides $1,250 more if customer satisfaction targets are met.
OWS prosecutes hotels for duress over AWAs and underpayment; 65,000 new entrants needed to stop skills shortage in restaurants, says RCA; and Work safety award winners.
The ACTU has described as "disturbing" new data from the OEA showing that nearly 600 14-year-olds have signed AWAs over a 10 month period, while separate OEA statistics reveal that a total of 129,678 AWAs have been lodged under Work Choices and employer greenfields agreements have climbed to 218.
A wage claim of more than 10% over three years is the main sticking point in negotiations between BP and AMWU and CEPU members at the company’s Kwinana refinery in WA, where workers yesterday voted up a ballot for industrial action.
182 employers under investigation for 457 visa breaches; Man sacked for pornographic downloads wins unfair dismissal case; Big names back LHMU's cleaners wage push; Parties continue to trade blows on IR; and Correction to OWS fines article.
Clauses in a proposed union agreement giving rights to "employee representatives," including in dispute settling procedures and to attend paid courses, are not prohibited content for the purposes of ordering secret ballots for industrial action, the AIRC has ruled.
Legislation streamlining the approval process for small businesses to bargain collectively - but excluding unions from that process - is expected to be put before federal Parliament again this week.
Western Australia's IRC has refused to adjourn a state unfair dismissal case pending the High Court's ruling on Work Choices, allowing a company to argue that the Commission has no jurisdiction to hear the matter under the new laws.
