Myer's new private equity owners have struck an enterprise deal with the SDA that retains conditions for more than 20,000 employees while moderating their pay levels to bring them into line with Coles group competitors Target and Kmart.
Jetstar and the ASU are set to lodge a new collective agreement with the Workplace Authority after 94% of balloted ground staff voted in favour of a three-year deal that doubles unpaid parental leave and makes it easier for workers to swap shifts.
The CPSU is accusing Telstra of trying to rush through a Work Choices non-union call centre agreement before the federal election, but the telco says the union is being misleading, because such an agreement would be "equally possible" under a Coalition or Labor Government.
Victorian workers who called community-based employment rights advocate JobWatch after the advent of Work Choices were negative about and fearful of the legislation, with their primary concern the job insecurity resulting from unfair dismissal changes, according to a new study.
The High Court's Justice Michael Kirby has highlighted the role of "the now often despised" IR tribunals in removing gender and pay inequality, saying that it wasn't secured by individual bargaining or workplace agreements.
The ACTU claims a new non-union meat industry agreement proves the fairness test isn't working, because the deal cuts pay by up to $88 a week, provides an annual pay rise of just 2% a year, removes rest breaks and annual leave loading and reduces overtime rates, but fails to fairly compensate workers.
Employers are treating Work Choices' requirement to provide unpaid maternity leave as an "aspirational goal" and believe the operational reasons exemption under the law gives them the right to sack or demote pregnant women, according to a new academic report commissioned by Victoria's Workplace Rights Advocate.
An AIRC full bench has thrown out for being out of time an unfair dismissal case that was initially rejected when a single member ruled that a NAPSA wasn’t an award for the purposes of the Workplace Relations Act’s termination of employment provisions.
The Australian employer community has responded to Work Choices like sharks that have tasted blood, and they “monstered” Labor over the first version of Forward with Fairness to ensure they didn’t have to stop their feeding frenzy, according to Workplace Research Centre director John Buchanan.
Five years after her last attempt, Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja has again introduced into parliament a bill providing for government-funded paid maternity leave.
