In what the ACTU describes as an "underhand move" but the AMMA welcomes as a "sensible fix", the Coalition has taken just a day to reverse a combined Labor, Greens and minor parties' vote requiring foreign workers on offshore resources projects to hold visas underpinned by Australian labour standards.
The FSU has criticised the CBA over its opening pay offer of a 3.5% increase for employees who are classified as "valued contributors" under the bank's performance ratings system.
Despite claims by the Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations that its submission to the annual wage review has been misrepresented by the Fair Work Commission, the tribunal's President, Justice Iain Ross, has refused its request to alter the record.
WA public sector employees have voted two-to-one to accept the Barnett Government's offer of a three-year deal delivering inflation-level only pay rises.
In its first ruling on the issue, the Fair Work Commission has decided that unions can include multiple employees in a single general protections application.
The Coalition is seeking advice on yesterday's Senate defeat of its regulation that by-passed the former Labor Government extension of Australia's migration zone to offshore resource projects.
The Fair Work Commission is today hearing a bid by the Devondale Murray Goulburn dairy cooperative to halt industrial action by ETU and AMWU members in pursuit of claims that include hiring more apprentices.
The Victorian Government has offered to double a proposed sign-on fee to $3,000 in an effort to break the long-running bargaining deadlock with its ambulance officers and paramedics.
The Productivity Commission in a new report has repeated its call for governments to adopt Victorian-style procurement guidelines to regulate substandard IR conduct in the construction industry, but has warned they might need to be modified to avoid a clash with the Fair Work Act.
The Federal Court has held that TAFE NSW's failure to reinstate an employee "appears to give rise to a serious matter" and involved a "deliberate decision" to disobey a Fair Work Commission order — which carries a 12 months jail term under the Fair Work Act.
