Office supply chain Officeworks Superstores and the SDA have struck a new enterprise agreement that phases down junior rates for over-18s and provides a 3.3% a year pay increase for 1,900 employees.
In a decision that opens the door wider for long-term casuals to be treated as employees, the IRC has ruled that a casual who rang his employer every day for 20 months - often finding no work the next day - was an employee under the Workplace Relations Act's unfair dismissal provisions.
In an unusual interlocutory decision that has got IR lawyers scratching their heads, the Federal Court has found it would be unfair for unions to take industrial action against BHP Iron Ore while the company is restrained from offering individual contracts to its unionised workforce.
The Federal Court has ordered an employer to pay the AWU $9,000 in fines for discriminating against employees over industrial action and their union membership.
WA employers will no longer have an unchallenged right to offer employment conditional on signing a State workplace agreement, following a crucial Industrial Appeal Court ruling.
The AiG has responded to the Democrats' decision to reject the Government's pattern bargaining bill by taking its battle against Campaign 2000 back to the IRC, today taking the unusual step of asking the Commission to convene an urgent hearing and to direct senior union officials to attend.
More than two months after the end of the crippling Victorian construction dispute, unions and employers are finally close to wrapping up the conditions agreement that will cover the industry.
Militant Workers First leader Craig Johnston is now the head of the Victorian branch of the AMWU, with the Federal Court today finding his election opponents hadn't proved their case on ballot irregularities.
In a two-pronged development that has incensed the CFMEU (mining & energy division), Shell is contracting out mining work at its Southern Colliery in Queensland and the contractor, the union claims, is giving jobs only to workers who will sign AWAs.
