Rates of pay including bonuses are growing at a new record annual rate of 4.9% in the private sector and 4.7% across the economy, but growth rates in pay excluding bonuses eased slightly to 4.1% seasonally adjusted in the March quarter, according to the ABS Labour Price Index, released today.
Sparke Helmore partner begins employment discrimination action against his own firm; Federal Court to re-convene crucial appeal on union status in June; and Federal Court reserves decision on ABCC appeal against Multiplex ruling;
Ten years after the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute, Patrick and the MUA have reached in-principle agreement on a new three-year enterprise deal that provides a substantial pay rise and boosts paid parental leave.
Thousands of Queensland power workers will go out for 24 hours from 6am tomorrow, in a bid to increase the pay offers from government-owned electricity corporations Energex, Ergon and Powerlink.
The Tax Office unlawfully discriminated against a compliance officer when it sacked him because it believed he had high blood pressure, the Federal Court has found.
The Productivity Commission's inquiry into paid parental leave will tomorrow in Canberra hear from the author of a proposal for 28 weeks of paid maternity leave, funded partly through an insurance scheme.
ACT Health discriminated against a pathologist when it presumed she had a psychiatric illness and suspended her on full pay, a discrimination tribunal has found.
Removing same-sex bias to affect leave, workers comp and super; PM calls for greater mobility for public servants; New centre to redeploy APS workers displaced by Rudd razor gang; WO can prosecute pre-Work Choices AWA duress, court finds; Full bench rejects unfair dismissal appeal by Coles workers accused of property damage; AIRC reinstates stevedore without backpay, after finding employer evidence “surreal"; Catholic church urges AFPC not to take away tax cuts for low-paid Burrow to meet SA employees over workers compensation; and World HR Congress coming to Australia in 2012.
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.
