Union PR specialists Essential Media Communications has significantly increased leave and training provisions in a new collective agreement with the MEAA.
Some 11,000 Qantas customer service, administration and IT employees will be seeking a 6% annual pay rise, 12% super contributions and maintenance of award conditions in an enterprise bargaining claim expected to be served on the airline by the ASU this month, ahead of the April 3 deadline for shareholders to accept a buyout by the APA private equity consortium.
There is no evidence that the Fair Pay Commission's first minimum wages determination last year added to inflation or unemployment, according to its chair, Professor Ian Harper, who also said today that he would be proceeding "carefully and with great deliberation and consideration" with rationalisation of pay and classification scales.
The CPSU says the OWS is delaying offering a non-union collective agreement to around 100 of its employees because they would vote against it, as most of them want a union agreement instead.
The UK's Blair Government has accepted its’ Low Pay Commission’s recommendation to increase the UK minimum wage by 3.2% this year, following an unusual fall in employment among low-paid workers.
The NSW IRC has started to develop principles for determining the obligations of federal system employers of children under the state’s new child labour laws.
The HREOC has called on the Howard Government to double to 20 days the personal/carers leave in the AFPCS, to reinstate "right to request" provisions and to require the OEA to report annually on AWA wages and conditions, but ACCI has dismissed the carers leave proposal as "an ambit claim not grounded in reality".
In another sign of a tight labour market, a new job website is offering referral payments of up to $10,000 to members of the public who help find employees to fill advertised vacancies.
