Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has set up a ministerial working group that she says will "consider further policy options" to curb exploitation of "vulnerable" foreign visa workers and might lead to Fair Work Act reform proposals that would be taken to the next election.
The Turnbull Coalition Government will have a better chance of achieving its IR legislative agenda and won't need to "run dead" on IR as an Abbott Government would have in the lead-up to the next election, an IR academic has told a Canberra forum.
RSRT to hold weekend hearings into owner-driver minimum rates; Labor's ChAFTA "safeguards" fall short on labour market testing, says ACTU; Coalition to take PC recommendations to next election, new PM confirms; Government will consider Labor super proposals; HR manager insists Shorten involved in organiser discussions; Queensland Government restores Labour Day to May; and Deadline this week for drug and alcohol provisions in building code.
The CFMEU's mining and energy division has accused the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance of "divide and conquer tactics" ahead of negotiating a new enterprise agreement for export coking coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin.
Three members of a family operating a BP service station have failed to convince the Federal Circuit Court they were not personally liable for two Indian students receiving less than 60% of the award rate of pay.
Pay rises in private sector enterprise agreements remain at a near historic-low, "consistent with the relatively subdued labour market conditions at present", according to the Department of Employment.
An employer's decision not to make permanent a driver with Asperger's even though he passed a comprehensive physical and functional assessment was "unfair and irrational" but did not breach anti-discrimination laws, a tribunal has ruled.
An FWC full bench today reserved its decision on a challenge to the approval of the Coles/Bi-Lo supermarkets agreement, after hearing that up to 50,000 employees of could be financially disadvantaged under the deal, which covers more than 77,000 workers.
The Senate has this afternoon passed amendments to the Fair Work Act's greenfields agreement provisions that give employers more power to break deadlocks and make unilateral deals.
An FWC full bench has upheld a decision to grant an entry permit to CFMEU construction and general division Queensland branch secretary Michael Ravbar, and dismissed the FWBC’s arguments that he was vicariously liable for the behaviour of other union officials as "riddled with unsubstantiated hyperbole".
