Professional rugby league players will be the first sport to have a dedicated union registered under the Workplace Relations Act, if the AIRC approves an application gazetted today.
An AIRC full bench has made it clear that the public interest test for terminating AWAs doesn't extend to considering the risk of employees losing money by reverting to another industrial instrument, saying that by doing so the Commission would be "nothing but paternalistic".
The ACTU will push for a UK-style right for parents to request a change in their hours or working arrangements to accommodate their caring responsibilities, when it lodges its work and family test case with the AIRC today.
The ACCI has today told the AIRC full bench hearing the redundancy test case that the ACTU's claim would impose massive cost imposts that would discourage essential business restructuring.
Democrats expecting dismissal bill debate in August; Cole exposure draft expected in July; NSW to expand adoption leave; and CEPU seeks to broaden call centre coverage.
The auto components dispute that was to set to provide the first test of new protected bargaining laws has been settled, with workers at Hella Australia yesterday afternoon voting up a pay offer of 15% over three years.
General secretary of the NUW, Greg Sword, has dismissed as "another attempt to stir up trouble" Workplace Relations Minister, Tony Abbott's referral to the Industrial Registrar of allegations of financial irregularities within the union's national office.
Workplace Relations Minister, Tony Abbott, has failed to convince the AIRC to review a decision refusing to certify a non-union deal that Grocon made during the height of its Victorian dispute with the CFMEU.
