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No real barriers to CSL award coverage: Crumlin

MUA national secretary, Paddy Crumlin, has described as "minor obstacles" to getting award coverage for CSL ships the five inefficient work practices the AIRC cited last week - and says he believes it will be "sooner rather than later' that the company's two foreign-registered vessels are regulated by Australian terms and conditions.

AIG seeks anti-Emwest laws

The AIG is calling for Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott to urgently legislate to overcome today's Emwest ruling, which clears the way for unions to make extra claims during the life of federal enterprise agreements.

News in brief, August 15, 2003

Navy not responsible for transvestite sailor's PTSD; Telstra redundancy appeal begins today; Requirement for sick leave certificate ruled discriminatory; and Full text of Johnson Tiles decision available.

Skills upgrade not psychological tests, claims ATO

The Australian Tax Office has played down union claims that its employees would be subjected to psychological testing and have to reapply for their jobs, saying the tests are part of a skills upgrading program.

Teachers' deal for Qld, as other states/ACT face action

As teachers in NSW, Victoria, WA and the ACT gear up for industrial action, the Queensland Teachers Union and the State Labor Government have struck a deal that delivers smaller class sizes and a 10.8% pay rise over 37 months.


Mother forced to travel fails in indirect discrimination claim

The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has dismissed an indirect discrimination complaint by a WorkCover Authority senior manager with two small children whose office was moved from Sydney to the Central Coast, in its first decision on the Anti-Discrimination Act's carers' responsibilities provisions.

AIRC rejects bid to rope-in CSL foreign-flagged vessels

A week after the High Court unanimously ruled it had jurisdiction to do so, the AIRC has refused to rope-in two foreign-registered CSL ships to the maritime industry seagoing award 191 largely because of "inappropriate" Australian work practices.

Federal Court full bench allows dismissal double dipping

In a major ruling on dismissed employees' legal options, a full bench of the Federal Court has given an academic who lost his unfair dismissal case in the AIRC a second chance at challenging his sacking 191 this time on the grounds that it breached his certified agreement and common law contract.

Government won't accept transmission changes

WR Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed the Federal Government won't accept Labor and Democrats amendments to his transmission of business legislation, which passed the Senate today.