Employment Minister Eric Abetz has declared that a frozen wage is better than no job, while refusing to comment on pay freeze deals being struck by individual employers.
The NUW has rejected a suggestion from Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon that it had set up a fundraising entity to evade requirements to quarantine union funds from election activities.
Less stringent English standards, abolition of the former government's labour market testing and fast-track approval for large companies with good records are among the raft of changes to Australia's 457 visa program recommended by a panel established by the Coalition earlier this year.
A major IT company had a valid reason to sack a project manager who wrongly claimed overnight expenses on 141 occasions over less than 12 months, but his dismissal was unfair given his long and otherwise unblemished service and the long delay in investigating the misconduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The Federal Court has fined the HSU and three former Victorian officials a total of nearly $68,000 for financial governance irregularities, and, in a first under registered organisations legislation, ordered one of them to repay the union more than $26,000.
Increasing labour's share of the pie is one of the keys to re-igniting global economic growth, according to a report prepared for a meeting of G20 labour and employment ministers in Melbourne.
The Heydon Royal Commission will conduct a hearing into the MUA at the end of the month, marking the third union the inquiry has added to the list in its terms of reference.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has held that employees can't be represented in unfair dismissal hearings by unions that they are not eligible to join.
