Fair Work Australia's decision today to lift minimum rates by 3.4% marks the first time in 20 years that a federal wage-fixing tribunal has awarded a percentage increase.
FWA has been asked to guarantee that a WorkSafe employee is able to work part-time until her child starts primary school, in a case in which it was argued that the prevailing employment agreement had not been designed to preclude an employee’s right to apply for permanent part-time work on return from parental leave.
Fair Work Australia has upheld the sacking of a TNT Express truck driver who used a GPS blocking device to enable him to conceal his whereabouts and claim overtime when he was at home.
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The CCI of WA has called for a major revamp of Australia's IR system, including reintroducing individual agreements; reducing to 20 the number of modern industry awards, with a possible later phase-out of award regulation; restricting union right of entry; and introducing an "inquisitorial" unfair dismissal process.
Employers in the Victorian mechanical contracting sector and the AMWU and AWU have struck an in-principle three-year deal that delivers a 15% pay rise and, in a key development, commits all companies to taking on at least one apprentice in its first 12 months, with the bigger employers to take on more over the full three years.
Victorian Police have voted overwhelmingly to undertake protected industrial action from next Tuesday, while in NSW, unions have released new pay research as they seek to head off plans to cap state public sector pay growth at 2.5% a year.
The resources sector shouldn't treat the rest of Australia like a "magic pudding that endlessly replenishes its desire for skilled labour", and it needs to look at more worker-friendly FIFO shift patterns as competition increases for labour between WA and Queensland, according to AMWU national secretary Dave Oliver.
