A general manager who was effectively summarily dismissed just two months after taking up a job with a top 500 organisation has been awarded 12 months notice, valued at around $300,000, after the NSW IRC ruled he had an unfair contract.
Victoria has moved a step closer to a truly unitary IR system, after the House of Representatives - with the Opposition's support - today passed Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' legislation accepting referral of the State Government's common rule award-making power.
AIRC President Justice Geoffrey Giudice has called for the Australian Industrial Registry and its Registrar to be brought under his control and for the appointment of more Melbourne-based members.
The Democrats' Senator Brian Greig has today reintroduced a private members bill that amends the Sex Discrimination Act to outlaw workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, transgender and intersex people.
Some 12,000 former Ansett workers will receive 42% of their outstanding redundancy and super entitlements, under a deal put to the Federal Court today.
WA's Civil Service Association has today launched a radio campaign ahead of Thursday's strike, as part of a bargaining push for public sector workers, while the teachers' union is entering conciliation in the AIRC over a proposed new deal for state school employees.
First specialist workplace relations lawyers accredited in Victoria; ASU brochure part of renewed push for paid maternity leave; BGC withdraws bid to revoke AWU employee's entry permit; New website for AIRC's Richard Kirby Archive; New book on s106 of the NSW IR Act; and AWU welcomes purchase of Pan by Tabco.
The labour hire bargaining battle that led to a 226-day strike at Smorgon Steel's Laverton plant in Victoria is all but over, with TAD workers to vote on a deal struck earlier this week.
The assault on AMWU national secretary, Doug Cameron, become a political issue today, with the Shadow Minister for Workplace Relations, Craig Emerson, today accusing his counterpart Kevin Andrews of using it to justify his Cole-based IR bill.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) is threatening to call a national coal strike over safety issues early next week unless the NSW Government intervenes to stop the WorkCover prosecutions arising from the Gretley disaster falling over on a technicality.
