AMMA has asked new Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to urgently re-consider the Government's plans to appoint two new vice presidents to the Fair Work Commission.
With polls indicating the return of the WA Liberal government at this weekend's state election, Unions WA is seizing on a commitment from Premier Colin Barnett that no-one would be worse off under the IR Bill his government released last year.
Lower-paying enterprise agreements covering thousands of retail workers and Queensland Catholic school teachers that were lodged in the December quarter last year contributed to a drop to 3.4% in private sector rises for the period and the lowest pay increases in federal agreements since late 1999, according to DEEWR.
The FWC has refused to return the entry permit of the Victorian construction union's president, finding he didn't meet the "fit and proper person" test, partly because he was "knowingly in contempt" of a Federal Court order to end a blockade of the Epping market construction project in 2010.
The Fair Work Commission has returned the entry permit of a senior NUW official who was responsible for covertly filming a Baiada chicken processing facility in South Australia, while it has issued a new permit to a TWU official who "orchestrated" a national four-hour wildcat strike by Qantas baggage handlers.
The ACTU and ANF have called on the Coalition to support the Federal Government's $1.2 billion boost to the aged care sector, which is contingent on employers making enterprise agreements that pay above-award rates.
The Fair Work Commission has advised unions and employer associations that they have until June 29 to change their rules to comply with the new legislative requirements on financial disclosure triggered by the HSU scandal.
The ACTU has unveiled research for the 2013 annual wage review that shows the labour share of national income has fallen dramatically in the last decade, in its view putting to rest the suggestion that Australian wage growth has been unsustainably high.
An enterprise bargaining dispute involving 15 Western Australian document management workers has spilled into the Federal Court, with the NUW and MUA ordered to lift a picket at three Recall Information Management Pty Ltd sites.
