Fair Work Ombudsman Nick Wilson has warned an audience mostly comprised of large employers that his organisation will be giving equal focus to IR compliance of large to medium businesses as it does to small businesses.
An Abbott Coalition Government would shift enforcement and investigations from FWA to a new commission within the FWO and overhaul the registered organisations legislation to increase penalties 90-fold and provide for imprisonment, according to the Opposition Leader.
The interim report of the Temby investigation into the HSU’s East branch has found a “pressing” need to reform its procurement practices, after confirming large payments to suppliers totalling more than $17 million over four years without any competitive tendering or market testing.
FWA President Justice Iain Ross will head a new 16-member panel for major resources and infrastructure projects, after a revamp of the tribunal's longstanding panel system.
An FWA full bench will convene next week to consider applications to amend penalty rates in modern awards, after the tribunal outlined the process for reviewing awards, which it hopes to "substantially complete" by the end of the year.
Telstra and unions have begun the mammoth task of negotiating a single enterprise deal to replace potentially thousands of individual employee agreements and some 65 collective agreements.
Union membership increased by 46,900 to 1,834,700 in the 12 months to August last year as the labour force grew, leading to a slight rise in density to 18.4%, up from 18.3%.
Union seeks interim reinstatement for Toyota workers, as Ford halts production; $20,000 compensation for unfairly sacked prison officer; FWA asks Victorian Government to clarify whether it is pattern bargaining; Price inflation drops below 2% a year; and Average weekly earnings data to be released twice a year.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has this morning stepped into the HSU crises, telling the Federal Court that he will apply to have the union's East branch declared dysfunctional and placed in the hands of an administrator.
