Labour costs jumped sharply while labour productivity improved slightly in the September quarter, according to ABS national accounts data revealed today. Meanwhile, revised estimates for the June quarter provide new impetus for the ACTU's campaign for workers to gain a larger share of the economy's fruits, with the profits share rising to the second highest level on record.
A tribunal has found that an employer that conceded it had a "huggy" workplace was vicariously liable for the sexual harassment of a male employee by a female co-worker who repeatedly gave him "full body" hugs despite his protests.
Fair Work Australia has upheld MSS Security's dismissal of a long-serving in-house recruitment and training coordinator for failing to comply with a direction to stop using an external recruitment company and then concealing his actions.
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A senior FWA member has conditionally granted an employer's bid to change its name on a transitional enterprise agreement to remove ambiguity or uncertainty, but has expressed some anxiety over doing so.
Fair Work Australia could play a central role in mandating "safe rates" for truck drivers under reforms proposed in a new federal government directions paper.
The ETU's Victorian branch has flagged plans to trial the four-day week in the electrical contracting industry, after securing 5% pay increases and improved penalty rates in a new framework deal for the sector negotiated with NECA.
The increased pace of wages growth in the September quarter was not "view changing", and the overall gradual rise in wage rates in Australia was what the Reserve Bank expected for an economy emerging from a downturn, the central bank's governor Glenn Stevens said today.
A fast food employer has failed to secure approval to include a preferred hours clause in its proposed agreement, despite arguing its casual employees would struggle to compete for work without it.
