The transport unions have written to Toll Holdings seeking assurances that their members won't be disadvantage by the company's successful $6.3 billion Easter takeover of Patrick Corporation.
ALP set to return minimum wage fixing to AIRC; Worker sacked for smirking, says AMWU; Beazley says he'll abolish foreign apprenticeship visas; and World's first eight-hour day marked in Melbourne.
The Australian manufacturing sector will generate a quarter of its economic activity offshore by 2008, which, when combined with other pressures such as competition from low-cost countries, could lead to job losses totalling 30,000 over the next 12 months alone, according to the AiG.
Major building owners, managers and cleaning contractors will be pressured to adopt a union code of principles as part of an international campaign for cleaners' wages and conditions launched by the LHMU today.
French Government reforms "mild" by Australian standards, says Howard; One sentence from IMF confirms benefits of Work Choices, says Andrews; and Implications of Amery are limited, says barrister.
Juice bar's Amber takes employer to AIRC; Employers can sack "pain in the bum" workers with impunity under Work Choices, says Andrews; AIRC reinstates Flying Kangaroo's medically retired flight attendant; BHPB recruitment case goes back to WA IRC; DEWR pays $12,000 to Harper's company; Child care shortage inquiry to take public submissions, says Victorian Government; and Melbourne Museum exhibiting union banners.
An AIRC full bench was referred to the fantasy world of Alice in Wonderland today to help decide its first ministerial review under the Work Choices changes.
The AIRC has for the third time in a month put off dealing with ABCC applications to intervene in employer cases seeking orders against unlawful industrial action.
The AIRC's decision this month to allow the ANF to take protected industrial action without a secret ballot has been challenged by the Federal Government, with a full bench set to hear the first-ever Ministerial review application under Work Choices tomorrow.
Federal Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has, as expected, responded to employer concerns about the onerous new record-keeping requirements imposed by Work Choices, announcing today that no hours records would have to be kept for workers earning more than $55,000 annually and lacking an overtime entitlement, and that daily start and finish times would not have to be recorded for other employees not entitled to overtime.
