Virgin Blue has failed to win support from its cabin crew for a new agreement negotiated with employees that would have increased rostered hours, reconfigured pay scales and cut wages for new starters.
The NSW Supreme Court has rejected a real estate agency's bid to enforce restraints in a former employee's contract to prevent him working for a nearby competitor.
Executive pay in Australia has been driven by "leap-frogging" - an inflationary form of comparative wage justice that ordinary employees had to abandon as "old hat and dangerous" in the enterprise bargaining era, according to Griffith University's Professor David Peetz. He also says the Fair Work Act's legal minimum is a "useful benchmark" when setting executives' termination payouts.
Just 5% (or less than 600,000) of Australia's 10.65 million workers have been placed in jobs by recruitment or labour hire companies, according to new ABS data that also reveals there are almost a million independent contractors.
There is no evidence to support the widely-held belief that long working weeks are associated with increased likelihood of marital breakdown, according to the latest release from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey.
In a case that has widespread significance, the Federal Court has, for the first time, awarded a sacked employee compensation - of $274,288 - on the basis that his employer breached the grievance procedure in his AWA.
A child care centre manager who was told she would have to work in a more junior position after returning from maternity leave was effectively dismissed, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
"Labour persuaders", "direct dealing" and "unfair labour practices" – this is the language of bargaining in the US, and it could be coming to a workplace near you.
The SDA is in the final stages of negotiating its first collective agreement with Spotlight, formerly a high-profile user of Work Choices AWAs, the union’s national secretary Joe de Bruyn has told ACTU Congress.
