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The AIRC has suspended a bargaining period at car parts supplier TI Automotive's Adelaide plant, after finding a strike planned for today and tomorrow and continuing overtime bans threatened significant damage to the welfare of more than 8,000 South Australian car industry workers.

A ruling by the WA IRC has exposed an anomaly in the State IR Act that prevents interim orders by the Commission from being stayed.

A WA IRC full bench has cautioned two CFMEU members who failed to appear in the Commission after being summonsed.

Labour productivity in manufacturing has grown by 3.1% a year in the 27 years to 2002-02, according to a new Productivity Commission study.

Some 11,000 workers at BlueScope Steel Limited (formerly BHP Steel) will be eligible to apply for up to 200 free shares offered under a new share ownership plan announced as part of the company's yearly results last week.

Zurich has become the first insurance company to offer up to 12 weeks paid maternity leave, under a new deal struck with the FSU.

Government counters attacks on Abbott; AIRC says "all or nothing" approach to sick leave provision not the best; Union rights clause prevents deal's certification despite links to other provisions; and UK think tank recommends workplace elder care.

The AIRC has terminated the bargaining period for teachers at Catholic schools in the Northern Territory, after finding that the parties' were unlikely to resolve a battle over workload regulation and revised dispute resolution processes.

Employers will have to be more careful to avoid unlawfully discriminating against employees because they are union members, after a Federal Court ruling substantially extended the definition of union membership under the WR Act's freedom of association provisions.

The ETU is seeking to flow-on across the labour hire sector in Victoria a deal hammered out with Skilled Engineering that doesn't mention the 36-hour week but effectively commits to bringing it in by February 2006.