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Christmas wishes

For our final story of the year, Workplace Express asked those involved in the big IR events of 2003 to rewrite the year so that it turned out exactly how they would have liked it to. This is what they said . . .

News in brief, December 19, 2003

No Joy for Buckland on ANZ board; AMWU and AiG sign off on car company deal; Discontent within Workers First?; and new name for CSR Staff Association.

Paper workers win super rise, while DVA workers get 4% a year

About 1,100 employees at four paper mills in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania have won a wage increase of 4.6% a year and an average superannuation increase of 2% over three years, while 2,600 Department of Veterans' Affairs employees have won new paid leave entitlements.

Big payout for executive who was misled

An electronic payments company chief executive lured to the job by an executive search company's misleading representations has won a total payment of $1.9m, in an unfair contract ruling by the NSW IRC.



Rio Tinto loses stay bid over Blair Athol workers

The CFMEU (mining & energy division) today won the latest round in its five-year battle with Rio Tinto over the fate of the 16 former Blair Athol workers, with a full bench of the Federal Court rejecting the company's application for a stay of the AIRC order that they be given preference of employment at the nearby Hail Creek mine.


Queensland test case on equal pay

The LHMU has applied for the pay and conditions of dental assistants to be raised considerably because their work has been undervalued on a gender basis, in what will be the first test of the State's new equal remuneration principle.

2004 living wage hearings in March

The seven-member AIRC national wage full bench will begin hearing the ACTU's claim for a $26.60 weekly increase in the award safety net on March 22 next year.