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Around 30,000 Telstra employees will vote in coming weeks on a proposed new enterprise agreement that restricts annual wage rises to 2.5%, but locks in generous public sector conditions ahead of the planned full privatisation of the telco.

Construction majors sign Victorian template deal; and RAAF discriminated against officer because of his age, says HREOC report;

The AIRC has upheld Rio Tinto's dismissal of a driver who fell asleep and drove his 300-tonne truck off the road, then failed to report the incident.

The bid by visiting medical officers in the ACT to form a new union has today been thrown out by the AIRC, which found they were ineligible because they were independent contractors.

The FSU will seek a 5.5% increase at NAB, while Westpac has made a revised pay offer and the ANZ has again paid a 4% annual unilateral increase.

The AIRC has reinstated a Woolworths butcher who was sacked for wearing an eyebrow ring at work.

A Federal Court full bench has clarified the scope of one of the grounds for discriminatory dismissal under s170CK of the Workplace Relations Act.

John Holland chair Janet Holmes a Court told the AHRI national convention today that the company had attracted more than 15,000 applicants to its employment website, after an advertising campaign that sought to attract workers from outside the construction industry for a massive road project.

The AIRC will tomorrow hand down what might be its last national wage case decision, as the Howard Government prepares to hand fixation of minimum rates to the proposed Australian Fair Pay Commission.

The Federal Court has today refused to award costs against the AMWU following the crucial recent judgment in Nestle.