New hurdle for McDonald entry permit bid; Living Wage Case starts tomorrow; Administrator starts paying out $150m to former Ansett workers; and Senate Cole inquiry starts today in Canberra.
The AMWU is taking the recent attacks on its national secretary, Doug Cameron, so seriously that it has purchased a secure house and relocated him and his family there.
The Federal Court has today struck down a regulation restricting public disclosure of information by federal public servants, in a case brought by a union official and Customs officer who was all but barred by his department head from speaking to the media.
After a bargaining process that was disrupted by the Howard Government's failed IR reforms in higher education, Sydney University and the NTEU have today signed an agreement that sets a new benchmark for paid parental leave in the sector, pays a 20% increase over 44 months and caps casual employment.
FSU assistant secretary Paul Schroder has today been appointed to take over the leadership of the union when Tony Beck steps down in February next year.
The AIRC this afternoon began hearing a bitter dispute between NRMA Motoring Services and the AMWU over wages and conditions for 350 to 400 patrol officers.
In what is believed to be the first court test of the Emwest principles, the Federal Court has rejected Australia Post's interlocutory argument that a 24-hour strike to start in NSW tomorrow wasn't legally protected.
A one-eyed firefighter's claim that he was denied promotional opportunities because of his disability have been upheld by a full bench of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal.
