The Victorian public service agreement provides a 12.5% increase (13.2% compounded), rather than a higher amount mistakenly reported a few minutes ago.
CPSU Victoria and the State Government have negotiated a new enterprise deal that will deliver 40,000 public servants a 12.5% wage increase (13.2% compounded) over 42 months, plus a lump sum payment to recognise the long period since their last pay rise.
Kelty to mediate BHP Bowen Basin deal; Mining union urges re-rating of BHP Coal investment risk; Curragh mineworkers vote up Wesfarmers’ deal; and AMMA continues push for constraints on greenfields deals.
Four building employees who lost their jobs as a result of what Abigroup argued were "plain vanilla" redundancies have made successful unfair dismissal claims, with FWA finding the company should have tried to redeploy them in one of its other divisions.
A Federal Court judge has looked behind the "stated" or "professed" reasons for a Rio Tinto subsidiary's decision against engaging a fixed-term employee at the end of his initial 12-month contract and ordered it to offer him a permanent job, after uncovering the "actual" reasons, which included his industrial activism and complaints and inquiries about workplace practices.
FWA's President, Justice Iain Ross, has revealed new timeliness benchmarks that will require members to deliver most rulings within eight weeks of reserving a decision.
The Federal Government has failed to convince Fair Work Australia to take a "high threshold" approach to the modern award review, by undertaking a "fresh assessment of modern awards" that was "unencumbered" by historical AIRC decision-making.
