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Abbott promises "sensible centre" on IR; Labor continues PPL attacks

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott promised to "move the workplace relations pendulum back to the sensible centre", restore a "strong" construction industry watchdog, and "hit dodgy union officials with the same penalties as corporate crooks", in his official launch of the Coalition's federal election campaign yesterday.


FWC finds liquidation and purchase of business not a sham in dismissal case

Notwithstanding serious concerns about the employment arrangements for five workers of an office cabinet manufacturing enterprise, the Fair Work Commission has ruled it would be a "bridge too far" to lift the corporate veil and find that a company who purchased the business around the time of their dismissal was effectively their employer.




FWC grants big wage rise for next year's apprentices

Next year's new apprentices – young and old – will benefit from significantly increased pay packets after the Fair Work Commission decided today that current award wage rates need to be lifted to reflect the changing demographics of the nation's apprenticeship cohort.




CFMEU blasts Grocon's $5m bid; Carnegie conduct "flagrant and contumelious"

The CFMEU has poured scorn on Grocon's submission that it should be fined $5m for contempt of Supreme Court orders that it lift its blockade of the Myer Emporium construction site in August last year, suggesting its penalty should be less than one tenth of that amount.



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