Victorian police have won pay increases of 12% over four years, plus "long-awaited" penalty rates for working on weekends and public holidays, under an in-principle deal with the Andrews Government that also seeks to address sexual harassment, predatory behaviour and sex discrimination within the force.
Two former employees of the Cbus industry superannuation fund have indicated they will plead guilty to charges of giving false evidence to the Heydon Royal Commission.
A fly-in, fly-out employee can claim workers' compensation for injuries a violent co-worker inflicted outside working hours at a BHP Billiton mining town's pub, because he was there due to his job, a full Federal Court has ruled.
An FWC full bench has overturned a commissioner's reinterpretation of the definition of the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" when determining redundancy pay rights in the contracting and labour hire industries.
The CFMEU is tomorrow seeking special leave from the High Court to challenge a finding that an employer did not take adverse action against an employee because it was motivated by the "impact" of the person exercising a workplace right rather than the "actual exercise" of the right.
Pay rises in public sector agreements approved by the FWC in the September quarter hit a three-year low, while a 4% increase for Coles supermarkets employees lifted rises in private sector agreements to an almost two-year high, according to Department of Employment data.
Norfolk Island's public sector workforce is seeking an 8% wage increase over two years, compulsory 9.5% employer superannuation and additional financial compensation for the introduction of income tax next year.
Former Queensland Council of Unions leader Grace Grace has taken over the State's IR portfolio after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a cabinet reshuffle today.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver says that unions are "very receptive" to the Turnbull Government's emphasis on innovation, after the "negativity and conflict" under former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
