Administrative changes in the Queensland IRC have led to a substantial reduction in processing times for cases, according to a senior Commission member.
A new agreement covering workers at a Visy Recycling facility has been knocked back by the AIRC for several no-disadvantage test failures, including an attempt to include performance bonuses in pay rates to push earnings over the award.
In an important ruling, Tasmania's Supreme Court has found that a casual worker had no ordinary time rate of pay for the purpose of calculating his workers' compensation entitlements.
The High Court has ruled today that an employer was not obliged to make super contributions for time worked by its casual employees outside their award's spread of ordinary hours.
A NSW tribunal has found an employer victimised a female employee when it investigated her complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination by reading them out to a large meeting of employees.
The Federal Court has issued an interlocutory injunction to stop senior CFMEU construction division official John Cummins from allegedly coercing a subcontractor to make an agreement with the union.
Tertiary education unions will hold a national 24-hour stoppage on Thursday, October 16, to protest against the Howard Government's plans to link university funding to IR change.
More than 1,300 workers at the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (DITR) have today won pay rises of up to 14.9% over three years in one of the only remaining non-union public sector agreements.
