New DEWR data has undercut RBA warnings about the risks of a wage-price spiral, indicating that private sector bargained wage growth remains anchored below 4% a year.
Queensland Catholic school teachers and support staff have rejected an employer deal by a narrow margin after the IEU labelled it "punitive" and warned of major cuts, while staff in Religious Institute and Edmund Rice schools have convincingly voted up their unilateral offer.
A FWC full bench has confirmed that it can only approve enterprise agreements that include rates of pay, because their absence prevents it determining whether the deal passes the BOOT.
The Minns Labor Government's first State Budget establishes a $3.6 billion Essential Services Fund to support future wage rises for public sector workers.
The IEU is urging Queensland's Catholic school teachers and support staff to reject a "punitive" proposed agreement that it claims will deliver the biggest cuts to their working conditions in two decades, but the employer says there are "no cuts".
The NSW Teachers Federation says a "breakthrough" in-principle deal will make the State's beginning and top-scale teachers the nation's best paid, after they stared down a Minns Government proposal to lock-in three annual 2.5% pay rises off the back of a first-year lift of up to 12%.
A FWC member has issued the "strongest recommendation" for AMWU members at an Ampol refinery to cease industrial action and vote up a new deal, after expressing her view that she lacked the power to convene a second post-PABO compulsory conciliation conference.
A major meat processor that told workers a proposed deal would boost their pay while reducing the rates for future recruits has failed to win approval after the FWC found some fresh starters could in fact earn far more while others would experience a "repugnant" reduction, while the umpire also suggested if the new genuine agreement principles applied, it might not comply.
The Australian Public Service Commission has tabled a revised APS pay offer that lifts total increases from 10.5% over three years to 11.2% and makes a 2.29% "re-alignment payment" for employees in some agencies as part of a shift to service-wide common dates for wage rises.
The RBA will put its bargaining offer directly to employees this month, governor Philip Lowe told an inquiry this morning, after failing to reach agreement with FSU.
