AiG chief executive Innes Willox has responded to Employment Minister Eric Abetz's criticism of "weak-kneed" employers by presenting the Abbott Government with a new wish-list of Fair Work Act changes.
Pay growth has slowed to the lowest levels since the ABS began recording its current data series, with private sector wages rising just 2.5% in trend terms in the year to December 2013 and public sector pay 2.6% — an overall figure of 2.5%.
In a rare pay-docking case, a senior member of the Fair Work Commission has ruled that employers can't simply rely on the cost to them of industrial action in deciding how much to deduct from employee wages.
The medium to high level of cannabis in the saliva of a storeperson and NUW delegate was enough on its own to justify his dismissal by a Woolworths subsidiary, the FWC has found today.
HSU acting national secretary Chris Brown says Craig Thomson should serve a custodial sentence after being convicted by the Victorian Magistrates Court this morning of defrauding the union during his tenure as national secretary.
The AWU will be seeking to "bump up" severance entitlements for employees that will be out of work as result of Aluminium producer Alcoa today confirming that it will close its Point Henry smelter at Geelong and related plants in Victoria and NSW.
The Fair Work Commission has recommended that a Melbourne-based Chinese language radio station train its staff and management in employment and discrimination law, after it dismissed a former presenter because of her Christian religion.
Craig Thomson has been found guilty of stealing HSU funds and obtaining a financial advantage by deception when he used the union's credit card to pay for escort services, cigarettes, firewood, travel expenses for his ex-wife, and to withdraw nearly $10,000 in cash from ATMs.
The battle for the hearts and minds of 100 meatworkers will be determined by an Australian Electoral Commission ballot after the Fair Work Commission ruled that both their employer and their union had misled them about their bargaining rights.
The Federal Court has found that shifting seasonal workers to a new employer after they'd worked 40 hours a week was a "sham" arrangement to avoid paying overtime.
