WR Minister Tony Abbott intends to introduce legislation during the current winter Parliamentary sitting to circumvent the Federal Court's Emwest ruling and give the AIRC the power to order cooling-off periods during bargaining.
The Federal Budget provides $17m for 2003-04 for the Government's initial response to the Cole Royal Commission and $28m a year in incentives from 2005-06 for universities to abandon collective bargaining.
Process of state safety net flow-ons begins; Rare suppression order lifted by AIRC; and Tasmanian Premier surveys levels of physical activity in his State's workplaces.
The AIRC has certified a call centre agreement that provides lower pay rates for employees on commission than those on wages, after finding it still passed the no-disadvantage test because the relevant award prescribed no minimum rates.
A NSW IRC full bench has overruled a decision that rejected three out of time unfair dismissal claims, after finding that it incorrectly applied the legal maxim dealing with ignorance of the law.
A newly-certified agreement for Air New Zealand provides a pay rise of up to 6% and allows redundant workers to reject offers of alternative employment without losing their severance entitlement.
The AIRC today certified a greenfields agreement between ABC Paper and the TCFU to cover workers at a new processing plant in Sydney, despite the deal not yet containing a pay rise or key leave provisions.
Electrolux wins leave to appeal in High Court; Federal Court hears Emwest appeal today; New organisations laws take effect today; Hearings set down in redundancy and childcare test cases; Breakthrough in NZ paper dispute; and Lavery decision now available.
The NUW's former NSW branch secretary, the late Frank Belan, has failed in a Supreme Court bid to have his former assistant secretary pay half of a $200,000 defamation bill.
The AMWU is claiming a breakthrough in its Campaign 2003 bargaining round, saying the major maintenance companies in the power industry in Victoria have committed to a 36-hour week, a 13% wage increase, and the introduction of fixed term contracts rather than casual employment for specific project work.