Registered organisations will have to disclose more financial information - including how much their senior officials are paid - and face a tripling of penalties for breaches, while FWA will have increased investigative powers and the right to pass on information to third parties such as the police, under a bill introduced into parliament this morning in response to the HSU scandals.
The jobs board that will enable Australian jobseekers to express their interest in positions at resources mega-projects ahead of foreign workers brought in under Enterprise Migration Agreements will be operating within days, DEEWR has told an Estimates hearing in the wake of Canberra granting the first EMA last week.
A senior Qantas manager has told a FWA full bench during the arbitration of its dispute with the TWU that culminated in last year's lockout and fleet grounding that the airline will not in future directly hire any more workers in its airports division.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has considered the implications of proposed enterprise agreements failing to uphold NES provisions requiring an additional week of annual leave for shiftworkers.
Wage rises in private sector agreements made in the last quarter of 2011 edged back above 4%, pushed along partly by large increases in greenfields deals covering about 9000 employees, DEEWR data released today reveals.
The Federal Government's construction industry IR legislation that abolishes the ABCC and replaces it with a new inspectorate will take effect on Friday, DEEWR said last night.
An FWA officer recalled to an Estimates hearing last night rejected the Coalition's claims that the institution had failed to act on what the Opposition maintained were 2009 recommendations to pursue criminal charges against former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson.
The Coalition has succeeded in having Fair Work Australia recalled to a Senate Estimates hearing this evening after revealing that former industrial registrar Doug Williams recommended three years ago that the Craig Thomson affair be referred to police “expeditiously” based “on the strength of discoveries from inquiries which do not require further investigation”.
Fair Work Australia's President, Justice Iain Ross has told an Estimates hearing that he had spoken to Vice President Graeme Watson about his comments at the NSW IR Society's recent annual conference.
