NSW unions will re-mobilise their powerful Your Rights at Work grassroots network to campaign for the Rudd Government to introduce 28 weeks paid maternity leave. They will also push the State ALP to adopt the maternity policy at its conference this weekend.
New ABS data released today indicates a smaller proportion of employees were entitled to paid parental leave in October last year than a year earlier. The new survey coincides with the St Vincent de Paul opportunity shop chain in NSW offering 14 weeks paid maternity leave to its 400 employees and a new study showing that breastfeeding suffers when mothers return to work in the first six months after having a baby.
Court rebuffs Woodside bid to disclose identity of email senders; PC to model Bracks options for post-2010 car industry assistance; and ACTU seeks to boost super contributions at 2020 Summit.
Qantas wins orders to halt action by store workers; Ex-Ansett employees likely to get 94% of entitlements: KordaMentha;Hearings begin next month for parental leave inquiry; Burrow and Ridout to be members of Skills Australia; and PM's proposed Parent and Child Centres would incorporate child care.
Employers can make false statements about workplace agreements provided they don't influence employees' votes, according to a full bench of the Federal Court.
Telstra unions to test AWA shift in new deal; Employer/union group lobbies for more skills investment; NZ outstripping Australia on key wages benchmark; CFMEU mining division forms new climate change alliance; Employers turning young workers off when they block MySpace, Facebook: Survey; and Consolidated version of Workplace Relations Act available on Austlii - incorporates Labor amendments.
Employees in New Zealand will have a statutory entitlement to unpaid meal breaks, paid rest breaks, breastfeeding facilities and unpaid breastfeeding breaks under legislation introduced this month.
Failure to lodge AWAs costs employer $5,500; Union drops case against employer's refusal to deduct dues; Building company ordered to pay sacked apprentice $5,000 in super and redundancy; and Re-employment for worker sacked after three heavy vehicle crashes.
AIRC sets up award modernisation website, releases list of awards; Deegan to review integrity of 457 visa system; and New head of state a former sex discrimination commissioner.
