Employers face fines of up to $33,000 and the ATO will be able to share information with the Department of Immigration under Federal Government legislation aimed at increasing protections for temporary overseas workers. But the new obligations employers will face under Labor won't now be determined for several months.
The TWU has lost its challenge to a decision by Virgin Blue Airlines to deny it access to the Brisbane airport room where it traditionally met with employees, with the AIRC finding the airline's decision was "reasonable" under the WR Act.
GM Holden will go back to the drawing board in its negotiations for a new enterprise agreement with the AMWU, after the union’s shop stewards today rejected the company’s pay offer.
Inflation to fall if wages stay under control, says RBA; AIG urges care with Fair Dismissal Code; Blue Glue dispute in Federal Court on Friday; Correction to Fairfax article; Power unions seek answers from NSW Government; NSW teachers back further industrial action; Victorian family anti-discrimination laws take effect; and Politicians on the catwalk.
Pay rises of 3.9% to 4.3% a year under offer to Fairfax journalists; NSW teachers to consider industrial action; AIRC's Jim Simmonds retire; O’Neil appointed TCFU national secretary; and ASU members to commence rolling stoppages at IBM.
The CPSU has asked the AIRC to prescribe good faith bargaining rules for the public sector, saying that numerous federal agencies - including the DEEWR - are failing to comply with new requirements to give employees the chance to opt for a union-negotiated agreement.
The NSW Supreme Court has refused to restrain a recruiter from using confidential information from his employer, but has ordered him to return some material he was sent unsolicited.
A threat by a Rio Tinto subsidiary to stand down employees if they refused to undergo urine tests for drugs and alcohol wasn’t industrial action, because it was motivated by the employer’s desire to comply with OHS obligations under NSW laws, an AIRC full bench has found.
An AIRC full bench has today effectively flowed-on the AFPC's $21.66-a-week pay rise to workers on transitional awards, rounding the amount up to $21.70.
The 81,000 award-covered workers in South Australia have won a $24.50 weekly pay rise from October 1, after the SA IRC handed down its State Wage Case decision today.
