Qantas's job loss announcement had "inflamed tensions" with unions, but future industrial action at the airline would be bargaining-related, ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence said today.
Private sector rates of pay are growing at 3.8% a year in trend terms, only marginally ahead of inflation, according to the ABS Labour Price Index, released today.
Qantas to make 1000 employees redundant; Ministerial council to develop long service leave NES; Victorian IR Minister wants legislation review brought forward; Expectations of wage and profit increases a challenge for monetary policy, says RBA; Westpac brings employees back in-house; and State Commission rejects AWU work value claim.
The first union collective agreement in two decades in Rio Tinto's WA iron ore operations has won overwhelming support in a ballot that closed yesterday.
Fair Work Australia has upheld an order for a recruitment company to compensate a labour hire worker it dismissed for defacing a host employer's workplace with a swastika.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has been asked to plug a gap in the Fair Work Regulations exposed in a recent ruling that union officials, whether lawyers or not, can't represent workers in small claims proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court.
A Queensland IRC full bench, in arbitrating a pay dispute for the State's police force, has criticised "one size fits all" public sector wage offers, particularly if they include police.
V Australia pilots are set to move off common law contracts and onto a new Fair Work agreement negotiated with flight crew unions that delivers immediate pay rises of 21% for captains and 18% for first officers, plus further increases during the life of the three-year deal.
