The crucial bill to move most unfair dismissals into the federal IR system has failed to pass the Senate, after it rejected a series of amendments proposed by the Democrats.
WR Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that the Office of the Employment Advocate has commissioned a $200,000 survey of more than 3,000 workers on freedom of association.
A Queensland tribunal has awarded an apprentice boilermaker $26,000 in damages and costs after finding he was sexually harassed by two of his male colleagues.
Wage rises in March quarter federal enterprise agreements grew by an average of 3.5% a year - down considerably from the 4.1% recorded in December, according to the DEWR.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott has written to the four big car manufacturers and more than 40 of their suppliers asking them to consider whether they are giving away their management prerogative, after an IPA analysis of their agreements found they were ceding too much power to unions.
An office supply company discriminated against a profoundly deaf employee who relied on sign language to communicate when it asked her why she couldn't lip read, a tribunal has ruled.
A senior AIRC member has found lawful an agreement clause requiring that contractors and subcontractors pay site rates, as long as obligations are imposed via the employer party to the agreement and not directly on the contractors or subcontractors.
The AWU is appealing a decision by the NSW IRC to rescind the consent award covering Pasminco's Elura mine near Cobar, arguing existing rates and conditions should apply and current workers should get preference of employment when new owners CBH take over at the site.
Workers at Ballarat auto components plant FMP who were locked out in June after threatening work bans have voted down their employer's offer in a secret ballot yesterday organised by the AIRC.
The CEPU is gearing up for another battle with Telstra over the forced redundancy of NSW workers, as the parties prepare for the corporation's appeal against last month's landmark interlocutory ruling on the powers conferred on the AIRC by dispute resolution clauses in certified agreements.
