NSW Caselaw
Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales
CITATION: Australian Workers Union v. BlueScope Steel (AIS) Pty Limited [2008] NSWIRComm 1071
APPLICANT Australian Workers Union PARTIES: RESPONDENT BlueScope Steel (AIS) Pty Limited
FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 1954 and 1959 of 2007
CORAM: Connor C
CATCHWORDS: industrial dispute - steelworks - hot strip mill - referral of a matter for arbitratration - wage matrix for operators - principles for wage fixation - comparative wage justice - current work value changes - increases in new technology - new computer based system in place - commissioning of new furnace - increase in production - two tier additional allowances prescribed for existing senior operators - future payment of allowances depends by appointment to position
LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996 Federal Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005
Australian Iron and Steel Pty Limited - Port Kembla Restructured Ironworker Classifications Rates of Pay Award Case - unreported BHP Steel (AIS) Pty Limited - Hot Strip Mill Reconstructured Ironworker Classifications Rates of Pay Award Case - unreported BHP (AIS) Pty Limited - O'Brien's Drift - Restructured Ironworker Classifications Rates of Pay Award - unreported BlueScope Steel Limited Paintline Dispute [2007] NSWIRComm 1022 Crown Employees - Legal Officers - Award Case (1972) AR 376 Crown Employees Scientific Officers Award Case (1962) AR 250 Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and TAFE and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award (2004) 133 IR 254 CASES CITED: Metalliferous Miners State Award Case (1928) AR 466 Mineral Sands (State) Award Case (1980) AR 107 Health Employees Pharmacists Award Case (2003) 132 IR 244 Parramatta City Council v. Health and Building Surveyors Association of New South Wales (1988) 26 IR 398 Public Hospital Nurses (State) Award (No.4) Case (2003) 131 IR 17 Reference by the Minister for Industrial Relations of a Dispute Between BHP Billton and the Australian Workers Union [2002] NSWIRComm 378 Soap and Candle Makers Case (1946) AR 264 State Wage Case 1989 (1989) 30 IR 107 State Wage Case 2008 - unreported
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