New domestic airline entrant Virgin Blue has struck a greenfields agreement for its pilots that provides substantial bonuses if they stay on beyond their first and second anniversaries.
GIO Australia employees will have to work longer but under better conditions after the Finance Sector Union and the AMP reached agreement on integrating the working conditions of 8,000 employees of the two former rivals.
In an important transmission of business ruling, a full bench of the IRC has rejected an employer's argument that a transmitted award applied to the sites it acquired with the business but not to sites established after the purchase.
Unions say workers on paid rates awards are more likely to take industrial action to advance their bargaining position following an IRC full ruling yesterday.
Ford and auto unions have reached agreement on the introduction of a nine-day fortnight and salary packaging, as enterprise bargaining negotiations continue.
One in four call centres use AWAs for employees on the call centre floor, while base pay for contact centre (customer service) workers in the industry increased 4.1% in the past year - driven by pressure to attract good workers, according to a new survey.
After a two-year hard-fought battle, the coal-mining "titans" - Rio Tinto and the CFMEU (mining & energy division) - have struck a new enterprise agreement for the Mt Thorley mine in the NSW Hunter Valley that gives the company the big ticket items it has been seeking.
The Democrats have dealt the Government's IR reform agenda another blow, announcing yesterday that they would block moves to extend youth wages to AWAs.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley's private member's bill amending the Workplace Relations Act fleshes out key parts of Labor's agenda - providing a process for the Commission to reinstate provisions lost through award simplification, requiring good faith bargaining and establishing new objects that give greater priority to employees, unions and the Commission's jurisdiction.
