Some 37,000 Western Australian public sector employees will receive a pay increase of at least 4.05% a year and enhanced work/life entitlements - including 12 months unpaid grandparental leave - under an agreement voted up last week.
The fairness test knocked the harshest edges off the Work Choices agreement-making regime, particularly in non-union environments, the Workplace Research Centre says in the last edition of its 15-year-old ADAM report, which has been killed off by the Workplace Authority's late release of data.
The Federal Court has found car parts company Tristar acted lawfully when it declined to retrench its remaining employees, despite them performing almost no meaningful work, and has criticised unions for using the workers as "foot soldiers" in a political campaign.
The NSW Supreme Court has barred a former executive from using "inside information" from his former employer and ruled that the 30-month restraint in his deed of release was reasonable.
Rio Tinto has followed its iron ore rival BHP Billiton in making a new five-year non-union collective agreement with a small numbers of workers, prompting unions to push the Federal Government to close what they say is a loophole in its transitional IR legislation. Meanwhile, BHPB and unions are close to striking a new agreement for the company's remaining award-covered employees in iron ore.
Remove exemptions from privacy laws for AFPC, employee records, says ALRC; LHMU calls on Starwood to end “media gag” policy"; Inflation to hit 5%, says RBA; Gillard urges Telstra to abandon Work Choices; and Recruitment company CEO wins breach of contract claim.
A labour hire company has been fined $40,000 and its director $8,000 for failing to pay three Filipino nursing assistants more than $13,000 in wages, casual loadings, penalty rates and holiday pay in breach of the Workplace Relations Act and the Nursing Homes NAPSA.
