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.
Ginnane and Bromberg take silk; Ministers council to consider national long service leave standards; $156,000 fine for ANZ over bank security failures; No irregularities in WA CEPU elections.
A NSW IRC (in Court Session) full bench majority has today found the Uniting Church Property Trust guilty of two charges of contempt of the Commission over demands and threats it made to two employees who had made s106 unfair contract applications.
Some 10,000 farmers receiving drought assistance will have access to a streamlined process for seeking a 12-month delay in paying this year's safety net increase, following an AIRC decision yesterday.
The days of "touchy feely" HR are long gone and major employers are looking for HR practitioners with hard financial skills and business knowledge, according to a leading specialist HR recruiter.
NSW secure employment test case to be heard in May next year; Survey suggests wage pressure building; and MUA launches book on its former in-house film-making unit.
The CPSU's Victorian branch is considering running a transmission of business case in the Federal Court to protect a group of outsourced workers employed under AWAs, after an AIRC full bench today threw out its bid to clarify their benchmark award.
The Victorian branch of the ANF has today launched a campaign against a Government plan to replace current nurse-patient ratios with a computerised rostering program that the union says will increase workloads and drive nurses away from the public health system.
Pacific National is waiting for unions to respond to a proposal on driver-only arrangements for its NSW train drivers, which it says is the only issue standing in the way of an in-principle deal for more than 3,000 rail workers.
