A s170LK agreement the AIRC has refused to certify has highlighted the scrutiny non-union agreements face in the Commission as it seeks to assess whether they pass the no disadvantage test.
Labor has amended its IR policy platform to include imposing time limits on the AIRC's determination of unfair dismissal claims and giving preference to suppliers who comply with its IR policies.
A cleaner whose employer exploited her financial dependence on her job to support her family by subjecting her to ongoing sexual harassment has been awarded $20,750 by the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.
The AIRC has allowed the AMWU to represent workers at labour hire company Forstaff's Avalon Airport aircraft maintenance facility, but from mid-2006, while the union has conceded it followed the MUA's lead and set up a company entity to overcome its lack of coverage at the site.
Sydney University Dean of Law Ron McCallum has told a Senate committee hearing that the Cole Bill was unbalanced, too prescriptive and excessively focussed on enterprise bargaining by single businesses.
A newly-certified agreement between superannuation administrator Superpartners and the FSU has given the company's 650 employees 10 weeks paid maternity leave and a 4% a year pay rise.
After 18 months of fruitless bargaining negotiations, gas and electricity distributor AlintaGas has applied to terminate an expired agreement struck with the ASU.
The Australian Education Union's WA branch executive has endorsed a proposed agreement which would give 14,000 teachers and administrators in State schools pay rises of 4% to 5% a year and appease concerns over class sizes and working conditions.
In an important decision on joint employment, a full bench of the WA IRC has found that a company that went into voluntary liquidation was not the employer of a dismissed national manager.
