Housing in a remote location cannot be counted as part of an employee's remuneration - because there is no market in such areas to provide a proper valuation, according to an IRC full bench.
The AMWU has lost its legal battle to participate in negotiations for new enterprise agreements to cover two groups of workers at Mount Isa Mines, but still intends to challenge its exclusion when the company and the AWU attempt to register their deals.
The Federal Government has flagged that its forthcoming legislation on industrial organisations will remove employee share ownership as a barrier to registering enterprise unions.
The Federal Court has made it clear that the WR Act gave Telstra's unions the tools to prevent the corporation discriminating against employees on collective agreements, despite finding that a management email quarantining AWA employees from redundancy selection was not illegal.
Women in female-dominated industries and professions in NSW will be able to argue they should be paid more if their work is undervalued, after the NSW IRC handed down its equal remuneration principle.
A full bench of the Queensland IRC has cut the qualifying period for long service leave to 10 years and allowed access to pro-rata leave after seven years.
Unions that fail to organise industries and professions within their coverage rules will risk having rival unions allowed on their turf, and all ACTU affiliates will be obliged to report to the ACTU on their organising strategy, under a policy endorsed by the peak council's Congress yesterday.
Retaining staff talent is now such a high priority at ANZ that chief executive John McFarlane wants to be personally informed about why key staff are moving and where they are going.
Unions would be able to charge non-union workers a service fee for negotiating collective deals, pattern bargaining would be protected, statutory individual contracts abolished, political strikes and secondary boycotts legalised, greenfield sites scrapped, and all non-allowable matters restored to awards under a raft of IR legislative changes the ACTU wants made.
