The Fair Work Commission has made an order to terminate Protected Industrial Action (PIA) in the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). This means that PIA can no longer be taken by DIBP employees, including those in the ...
Tags: Fair Work Commission, PIA, DIBP
Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and, for the fifth consecutive quarter, an improvement in Return on sales (ROS) – from 8.0 percent to 9.1 percent. Excluding restructuring costs of €55 million, ROS was 10.6 ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Performance Coatings
Unions will seek urgent talks with the main contractor to impress the need to put forward an offer to resolve this long running dispute says GMB Scotland An overwhelming majority of GMB members employed on a new gas plant project in ...
Tags: GMB, new gas plant project, Shetland, industrial action, accommodation
Australia's three surviving car makers have called for continued financial support, a reassessment of tariffs and trade agreements, and policy clarity in their submissions to the Federal Government's inquiry into the current state and the ...
Tags: Car Makers, Call for Support, Productivity Commission Submissions
An in-principle agreement has been reached between Toll Group and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) in their enterprise agreement negotiations. The outcome is subject to final drafting and the support of the 10,000 impacted Toll employees. ...
Tags: Service
Coal of Africa Limited's run-of-mine production fell 23% to 3.78 million mt of (ROM) mt in its 2012/13 year, with activity hit by a blocked rail line, flooding at a colliery, and strike action. CoAL also said Friday it processed 3.37 ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Following the TWU's threat of further protected strike action made on Monday, Toll spokesperson Christopher Whitefield said the company was hopeful the union would not take industrial action while negotiations were still ongoing. "[The] ...
Workers at transport company Toll have voted convincingly in support of protected industrial action, according to the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The result, announced by the Australian Electoral Commission, means that workers at Toll ...
Tags: Logistics
Thousands of workers will vote on industrial action at Australia's largest transport and logistics operator after the Fair Work Commission today approved the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) application for a Protected Action Ballot across ...
O2 has outsourced four northern UK regions of its customer contact centres to Capita, in a deal worth £1.2bn. Included regions are Leeds, Glasgow, Preston Brook and Bury. Further reading Transport for London installs O2 and ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Members of five trade unions employed at the Port Waratah Coal Services shipment facility for coal exports at Newcastle port in eastern Australia have called a four-hour strike next Wednesday in an escalation of their industrial dispute ...
Tags: PWCS, Coal Terminals
Workers at the Port of Hong Kong have voted to call off their industrial action after accepting an improved wage offer and promises of further negotiations on working conditions – as well as an assurance that there will be no ...
An end to a two week-old strike at Chile's largest coal mine appears close at hand after one of two unions involved agreed to return to work Thursday. In a statement Friday, Mina Invierno said the union representing maintenance workers at ...
Tags: Coal Mine Strike, Coal Mine
A majority of the 13 Hunter Valley coal producers using Port Waratah Coal Services' export facilities at Newcastle in eastern Australia have volunteered to cut their contracted capacity for coal shipments for the rest of this year, PWCS ...
Tags: Coal Producers, PWCS Terminals
A representative of the union Unite has warned that Carling management faces an impending “high-speed collision” with brewery workers over the “very severe pay cuts” and “radical changes to shift ...