Paid maternity leave protects working mothers' careers, incomes; Working fathers wary about seeking formal flexible work regime; and Over-55s identified as untapped economic resource.
Still no work on Brisbane hospital project; No appeal against drug testing ruling; and Lawyer says unions "missed the point" on contingent workforce event.
Long-serving AEU Victorian president Mary Bluett and secretary Brian Henderson have until December 31 to secure their final enterprise agreement, after announcing they have not nominated for the upcoming branch election.
Greens MP Adam Bandt's private member's bill requiring local employment under enterprise migration agreements, and independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon's exempting small business from penalty rates, are both before Senate committee inquiries.
The NSW Supreme Court has awarded stockbroking firm Wilson HTM Investment Group Limited $174,416 in damages and ordered rival Ord Minnett Limited not to use confidential revenue figures
Grocon lodges new contempt claim as FWA talks resume; Cafes and owner hit with $90,000 fines for underpayments; and Newman Government's budget: 14,000 public sector jobs slashed.
DEEWR's latest bargaining data shows that private sector agreements are continuing to provide increases above 4%, but rises in public sector deals have plummeted to 3.1% a year.
Fair Work Australia has refused to accept a general protections claim a former Commonwealth public servant filed 64 days late, finding that his hospitalisation and later discovery of evidence through FOI documents did not constitute sufficiently exceptional circumstances to warrant an extension.
The High Court is now weighing up arguments from the NSW PSA and five state governments on the constitutional validity of the O'Farrell Government's legislative cap on public sector wages, after oral submissions concluded on September 5.
