Crown Melbourne's dealers have won immediate pay rises of up to 18%, under the latest enterprise agreement covering the casino group's 4500 hospitality workers.
Abbott hints at compromise on paid parental leave; Wages to rise by 2.75% annually over next two years, says Treasury; RBA governor says "pro-productivity" changes the path to higher real incomes; Sasse appointed chief of Bluestone; RSRT outlines its agenda; Video now available for FWC's latest workplace lecture; and IPA director new Human Rights Commissioner.
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency says the new mandatory reports that employers of 100-plus employees must submit on April 1 next year will be "significantly easier and quicker to complete" than those under the previous regime. Meanwhile, the WGEA is relaunching its employer of choice accreditation scheme.
The FWC is going ahead with its review of the CFMEU's right of entry practices after dismissing the union's arguments that it has no jurisdiction to conduct a "preliminary investigation" and is denying it natural justice.
A clinical pharmacist has established that a NSW public hospital indirectly discriminated against him on the basis of race because pharmacists from an Arabic background could not meet promotion criteria.
The Federal Court has fined BHP Coal more than 90% of the maximum available penalty for breaching the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions when it dismissed two CFMEU lodge officials at its Peak Downs mine in Central Queensland.
CFMEU official Joe McDonald's aggregate contempt bill is approaching $100,000 after the Federal Court yesterday hit him with another large fine for breaching an order forbidding him from coming within 100m of Brookfield Multiplex's Fiona Stanley Hospital site in Murdoch, WA.
The NSW Government has pledged to appeal yesterday's state IRC ruling that stops it from counting superannuation increases owed to public sector employees towards their 2.5% annual wage increase.
NSW unions have had a big win over the O'Farrell Government this morning, with the High Court declaring that the state's new political donation laws are unconstitutional.
