The AMWU is pushing for 'site rates' at a big McCains food processing plant in regional Victoria to discourage the spread of contractors and labour hire workers by ensuring they are on the same pay and conditions as employees.
An employee who had her general protections claim rejected by the FWC for purportedly "double dipping" will have a second chance before a full bench after it found the points raised in her appeal might have "broad significance".
A new CBA deal awaiting approval in the FWC is the last of the big four Australian banks' agreements to remove links between sales targets and pay increases, but the FSU says they all have a "long way to go" in developing alternative models.
Australia should scrap long service leave and move to a leave-bank system, end "short-termism" and think outside the square to develop better IR policies, according to Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum.
A CFMEU official who told a Lend Lease project manager he wanted to "smash" someone during a site visit has failed to overturn a decision to suspend his entry permit.
The Fair Work Commission will consider allowing employers covered by the retail award to pay a higher "loaded" rate of pay in lieu of penalty rates and overtime pay.
The application to terminate the 2011 enterprise agreement that covers more than 74,000 Coles Supermarkets employees returns to the Fair Work Commission next week.
Pay rises in private-sector enterprise deals have climbed back above 3%, coinciding with a big reduction in agreement-making in retail and hospitality, according to the Department of Employment.
