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An Adelaide cleaning business is the first company to be prosecuted by the Office of Workplace Services for allegedly lodging an agreement approved by employees who were not subject to the deal.

Acrimony over Work Choices dominated Friday's meeting of IR ministers, but some agreement was reached on the process of harmonising OHS laws nationally.

The Federal Government will reject a proposal by American Express Corporation for a new labour agreement allowing it to undercut Minimum Salary Levels for 160 temporary skilled migrants from Japan to work in a Sydney call centre.

Federal Safety Commissioner’s construction industry guidance released; MUA accuses ABB of bringing in replacement non-union workforce; Silvestri v CFMEU case to be heard next month; and SA Government backs lawyers over unlawful termination funding.

Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited today dropped its Federal Court action against nearly 300 individual workers after talks with unions stopped a strike at its Altona car plant in Victoria last week.

NECA and the ETU have struck a deal delivering building industry code compliance for the Victorian electrical contracting industry, but with some union-friendly conditions to be guaranteed in common law side deeds.

The company at the centre of a ground-breaking dispute over the payment of wages during industrial action has lost a s496 application, in an AIRC decision that clears the way for unions to take protected action for claims to guarantee employee entitlements, even if they are not included in the secret ballot authorisation.

Strikes in breach of NSW IRC orders against industrial action should only be penalised if the case is “absolutely clear cut”, the state's Industrial Court has ruled.

Inflation outstripping wages for first time in five years: ACTU; NSW OHS Bill still scheduled before year-end; and Regulations analyses available

Siemens Ltd today won a second AIRC order banning industrial action by the CFMEU, ETU and AMWU at the troubled Laverton gas turbine power station in Victoria, despite a recent outbreak of industrial peace at the site.