Queensland's health unions have rejected the state health department's assertions that parties are close to wrapping up a deal in their latest bargaining dispute, and say they are still claiming a 12% pay rise over two years, despite the department maintaining they have agreed to a bottom line of 6.5% over the same period.
Maintenance workers at a NSW abbatoir have accepted AWAs that provide a standard 50-hour week and maximum shifts of 13.5 hours. Ordinary hours apply Monday to Saturday, with no specified span of hours.
July 1, the date many Victoria manufacturing employers have long feared, has come and gone with barely a whimper as the metal industry unions so far play the bargaining game strictly by the book.
Commissioner Bob Watling has been promoted to Deputy President of the Tasmanian Industrial Commission, while the CEO of the State's Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Tim Abey, is to be a new Commissioner.
Julius Roe, who lost out to Craig Johnston in the recent elections for secretary of the Victorian branch of the AMWU, has been appointed national president of the union by its national council.
The AMWU has won support outside Australia for its battle against Joy Manufacturing, which has locked out its workforce in the NSW southern highlands for three months now.
Senior employment lawyers say employers should review letters of offer that refer to company policy manuals, after a Federal Court full bench found that a redundant worker's employment contract incorporated a redundancy agreement between the company and the printing union.
A senior executive made redundant by Westfield has won access to share options that would net him $1 million, following a New South Wales IRC ruling that his contract was unfair.
