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.
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.
Employees of the NSW Sugar Milling Co-op have won a pay rise of 3.5% a year and been assured the introduction of new energy generation technology to the company's milling operations will not lead to job cuts, under the terms of an agreement certified yesterday.
Two former NSW Nurses Association employees are taking the union to the Federal Court, seeking their jobs back and penalties against the union, claiming it breached freedom of association laws by sacking them for running against the union's leadership in this year's election.
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Car components manufacturer Tristar - which was at the centre of a dispute that halted the nation's car manufacturing two years ago - has struck a new agreement with unions following industrial action that closed the company's Sydney plant for a total of 14 days over the past five months.
Employers who don't generally offer part-time or flexible employment are not obliged under federal anti-discrimination laws to allow full-time employees to return to work part-time after maternity leave, the Federal Magistrates Court has ruled today.
The AIRC has temporarily staved off industrial action by more than 500 bus drivers employed by Serco Australia, as the company considers a new proposal put forward by the TWU.
In a sign that wage pressure is building, growth in private sector enterprise agreements has hit a three-year high of 4.2% a year, according to the DEWR.
