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About 80 jobs at TOTE Tasmania jobs will be lost when when the Tatts Group takes over next month.

Source: Hobart Mercury

Qantas engineers in Melbourne have lost out to their northern counterparts because the airline has transferred significant slabs of work done at Tullamarine to Sydney.

Source: The Age

Wages are growing at a ''Goldilocks'' pace - faster than inflation, but not fast enough to concern the Reserve Bank.
Source: The Age

Nurses will cut staff in Victorian hospitals under work bans set to escalate from tomorrow unless the state government agrees to an independent umpire deciding all their unresolved industrial issues by 5pm today.

Source: The Age

A Port Melbourne banking equipment firm is set to sign a $500 million deal to supply India with a payment system for its work-for-the-dole scheme.

The Age

Victoria's Department of Human Services (DHS) plans to cut 500 jobs as part of a major restructure.
Source: ABC

The Federal Government has postponed plans to move unemployed Indigenous people off Community Development Employment Projects wages and on to the dole.

Source: ABC

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) has confirmed that a handful of Alcoa supervisors have been offered lucrative jobs in the Middle East.

Source: ABC

Onesteel has announced plans to cut another 430 jobs in its Australian steel operations by the end of June in an attempt to cut costs.

Source: ABC

At least 60 workers could miss out on their full entitlements after Australia's largest tomato grower went into voluntary administration.

Source: Herald Sun

Staff at Tasmania's betting agency TOTE Tasmania have been told about one third of the workforce will be shed when it is taken over by the Tatts Group next month.

Source: ABC

One in every four workers in WA or nearly 250,000 people have no holiday or sickness entitlements, a national inquiry was told at a hearing in Perth yesterday.

Source: The West Australian

The University of Sydney is slashing at least 100 academic positions and has told another 64 academics they can move to a teaching-only position.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

The employment arrangements of embattled Canberra Liberals' staffer Tio Faulkner are unacceptable, according to Chief Minister Katy Gallagher.

Source: Canberra Times

One in every four workers in WA or nearly 250,000 people have no holiday or sickness entitlements, a national inquiry was told at a hearing in Perth yesterday.
Source: West Australian

A bank employee who seriously injured her back when a chair collapsed under her at work has been awarded more than $270,000 in damages.

Source: Courier Mail

The University of Sydney is slashing at least 100 academic positions and has told another 64 academics they can move to a teaching-only position.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

The 600 workers facing the sack at Alcoa's Point Henry plant in Victoria are being offered lucrative pay packets to help set up a new cut-price smelter in Saudi Arabia.
Source: The Age

The Baillieu government has called for an overhaul of the Fair Work Act, backing employer and business group claims it is stifling productivity.

Source: The Age

Hospital executives have defended proposed changes to nurses' conditions - including more flexible nurse/patient ratios - in a move that reflects concern about the possible outcome of a stopwork meeting by nurses tomorrow.

Source: The Age

The Royal Hobart Hospital was so overloaded at the weekend that managers were forced to defy budget cuts by reopening beds and bringing in extra staff.

Source: The Mercury

Tasmania's band of fly-in, fly-out workers is increasing as the big pay packets offered by interstate mining operations lure both skilled and unskilled workers.

Source: The Mercury

Employees of failed budget airline Air Australia say they are "truly disgusted" after becoming jobless as well as stranded, along with thousands of passengers, in airports in Bali, Thailand and Hawaii.
Source: The Age

As Australian employers from public and private sectors are using more temporary workers in an uncertain global climate, a workers union claims this growing class of workers is struggling against a tide of personal uncertainty, unable to secure leases or loans.
Source: WA Today

Unions are pushing to make it easier for workers to claim unfair dismissal and for a more activist role for the workplace tribunal in settling industrial disputes.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

It has been 12 months of despair for some workers but a year of opportunity for others.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Brisbane Qantas workers face a nervous few days as rumours swirl among union officials jobs are going to be axed.

Source: Brisbane Times

Pacific Brands will axe more than 100 jobs at its Bonds and Berlei distribution centres in Sydney, but says it hopes to create a similar number of jobs at its new distribution centre in Melbourne.

Source: The Age

More job cuts are on the way at Qantas on top of those flagged yesterday, with hundreds of workers at two Victorian airline maintenance centres at risk.

Source: The Age

Victoria is taking the brunt of Australia's job losses. Official figures show a net 33,000 full-time jobs have been lost since April, equivalent to one in every 60 full-time positions in the state.

Source: The Age

Embattled union chief Kim Sattler has been allowed to keep her job after weeks of contradicting statements over her role in the Australia Day security scare.

Source: Herald Sun

The Qantas review of maintenance services is expected to start a jobs "bidding war" between Victoria and Queensland.
Source: ABC

The central Queensland coalfields have been thrown into industrial and financial turmoil as 3500 workers yesterday walked off the job for a week and threw away about $8 million in wages.

Source: Courier Mail

One of the two female executives at The Star casino who complained they were sexually harassed by its sacked former managing director, Sid Vaikunta, was told she had lost her job on Monday.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Nurses will hold a stopwork meeting at Festival Hall on Wednesday to determine the next move in their industrial campaign with the state government.

Source: The Age

A Yarra Trams ticket inspector who had his accreditation revoked for making personal calls to a woman he had issued with an infringement notice for fare evasion has failed in his court bid to get his job back.

Source: The Age

The Federal Government has for the first time terminated a company's contract to recruit overseas workers on 457 visas under a labour agreement.
Source: ABC

Qantas is expected to announce hundreds of job cuts when it releases its half-yearly results later today.
Source: ABC

Trade unions have clashed over the New South Wales Government's decision for police to take over security on the state's public transport system.
Source: ABC