Base pay for women is almost 20% lower than for men in companies employing more than 100 people, but only 24% have identified the size of the remuneration "gender gap", according to new federal government research.
A lack of managerial capacity is to blame for the huge cost blowouts on major publicly-funded infrastructure projects such as the Wonthaggi desalination plant and Melbourne’s Spencer St Station upgrade, and could have been prevented if the current Victorian construction code was in place, according to IR consultant Stephen Sasse.
Resources ventures' rights to exploit Australia's minerals should be contingent on winning a development approval that ensures they have an efficient construction phase that utilises a Victorian-style building code to regulate IR practices, consultant Stephen Sasse told a HR Nicholls Society dinner last night.
Former HSU leader Craig Thomson has been warned that his three-month jail sentence could be extended if he fails in his appeal against convictions for 65 counts of theft and obtaining a financial advantage by deception.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says he does not remember a meeting former AWU official Bob Kernohan told the Heydon Royal Commission took place 18 years ago, and does not believe he made comments Kernohan claims he did.
As the CPSU ramps up its campaign against the federal government's public sector bargaining strategy, the union’s national secretary is seeking another three-year term in a ballot that closes on December 14.
A company's failure to consult with employees before making them redundant has cost it $19,000, despite a court's concern the penalty was "manifestly excessive".
Lawyers for CFMEU secretary Brian Parker have denied that he orchestrated the leak of private data from the Cbus superannuation fund or committed perjury in his evidence to the Heydon Royal Commission.
Virgin Australia will early next month put a revised four-year agreement to a ballot of its 2,000 short-haul cabin crew, after reaching an in-principle deal with two of three unions following flight attendants' April rejection of its earlier offer.
Tomorrow's planned four-hour stoppage by marine engineers at Port Hedland tug operator Teekay Shipping is off, after the company and AIMPE struck a deal that incorporates the landmark pay-for-leave buy-out accepted by the other two maritime unions, plus a compromise on earlier key stumbling blocks.
