Some 20,000 Target employees will receive a 3.8% annual pay rise under one of the first major union retail agreements struck under Work Choices, while the SDA has also now finalised deals with Super Cheap Auto and Ikea.
The ALP will allow Fringe Benefits Tax exemptions for employers providing childcare as part of an early childhood policy that would also let workers salary sacrifice fees for employer-provided child care.
Faced with having to negotiate agreements under Work Choices for up to 80 agencies this year, the CPSU has beefed-up its bargaining resources and put in place a "core" bargaining claim to underpin its campaigns in the workplace.
The day after Opposition Leader Kim Beazley labelled the Federal Government's foreign apprenticeship visa scheme "disgraceful", the Northern Territory Government has announced it won't be participating in it.
The NSW Supreme Court has ordered a sales manager not to contact his former clients or try to entice away his former colleagues, after finding he breached a confidentiality clause in his employment contract when he went to work for a direct competitor.
Building products manufacturer James Hardie is offering AWAs to its casual workforce as a condition of permanent employment at its Carole Park site in Brisbane during stalled negotiations for a new collective deal.
The former principal of a college for Indigenous students in the remote Northern Territory has failed to prove she was discriminated against by the school's management.
Independent schools in NSW have bypassed the teachers' union with a proposal to boost pay rates - partly by providing for stronger links to performance - while reducing conditions such as long service leave, annual leave and removing annual leave loading.
