Workplace Relations Minister Chris Evans has today seized on calls by senior Coalition figures and backbenchers for further IR change as evidence of the Opposition's ongoing support for Work Choices, in a week in which Coalition Leader Tony Abbott hosed down the need for reform.
IR shake-up recommended for TAFEs; IR barristers take silk; Cleaners' portable long service bill through; Dalla-Riva new Victorian IR Minister; and Recognition for McCallum
A mining worker on a fly-in, fly-out roster has been awarded $22,000 after the Federal Court found he was not a casual despite being engaged and paid as one and that his employer couldn't offset a component of the all-up rate it paid him against the annual leave he was owed.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has rejected both employer group and union bids to vary key modern awards to ensure nationally consistent penalties apply to work performed on Christmas Day.
An employer has successfully varied its enterprise agreement to reduce minimum shift lengths for part of its workforce, after Fair Work Australia found the change was consistent with the public interest and BOOT.
Parramatta Leagues Club's sacking of its former chief financial officer for issuing an unauthorised $39,000 cheque just after a board change that resulted in the mid-season dumping of long-serving CEO Denis Fitzgerald was not unfair, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
ANZ will soon become the last of the big four banks to make an enterprise agreement under the Fair Work Act, after employees yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed a new two-year deal delivering annual pay increases of up to 4%.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rebuffed lobbying from the ACTU executive for further IR reforms, but says she respects the union movement and has a positive view of union membership.
Increased income inequality in recent decades didn't mean those at the middle or very bottom had been cheated but that a relatively small group at the top had done "extraordinarily" well for themselves, according to economics columnist Ross Gittins.
