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Work Choices works for innovative collective agreements, AHRI conference told

An innovative “unified agreement” replacing 16 separate awards and collective agreements plus a number of individual contracts covering around 900 employees at Vision Australia was easier to negotiate under Work Choices’ approval process, according to the organisation’s national HR manager, John Gow.


ABS data shows non-managers earning 3.3% less under AWAs than collective deals

An ABS survey taken in May last year - before the full impact of Work Choices was felt - shows that registered individual deals such as AWAs have made little headway, covering just 3.1% of workers in the private sector and 2% in the public sector, while non-managers are earning 3.3% less under AWAs than they do under collective deals.



News in brief, February 28, 2007

Hockey to address National Press Club today; New way to make online submissions to Fair Pay Commission; No automatic liability for negligence by contractors, says High Court; and Casualisation of academic staff targeted by NTEU.


News in brief, February 26, 2007

Bonus scheme excluded when calculating whether salary within unfair dismissal income cap; 5% of labour force underemployed, says ABS; and Other countries looking to 457 visa model, says paper



Man sacked for sexual harassment wins re-employment

A full bench of the NSW IRC has upheld a finding that the sacking of a court officer for both harassment and sexual harassment was unfair, but said it made its ruling "not without hesitation" and warned that "no employee who engages in harassment of any kind could take any comfort from our decision".




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