Employer groups have urged Fair Work Australia to vary the retail modern award to enable retailers to hire casual employees for a minimum two-hour period – down from three – in a move opposed by unions.
Facing Federal Court orders and already subject to those from State IR tribunals, the AEU has this morning backed down on its planned NAPLAN boycott after the Federal Government offered a concession on future use of the test data.
A disability service provider has failed in a protracted bid to prevent LHMU members taking industrial action, but FWA has indicated there was "real potential" it would find that a two-hour stopwork endangered the welfare of the organisation's clients.
Fair Work Australia will pay its employees a $950 sign-on bonus and has agreed to a guaranteed role for union representatives in workplace consultations under its first enterprise agreement.
The AEU has argued its proposed NAPLAN moratorium next week is an "ethical and professional" measure, not industrial action, in opposing the FWO's Federal Court bid today for an injunction to stop the ban going ahead.
A coal company's conduct in directly communicating its bargaining position to workers the CFMEU (mining & energy division) was representing did not breach good faith bargaining laws, a full bench of FWA has ruled.
Employers won't have to administer employees' parental leave payments until mid-2011, while the FWO will investigate those who fail to pay, under draft paid parental leave legislation the Federal Government has released today.
NSW's public sector union and the State Government have agreed to a "historic" breastfeeding clause that delivers a suite of entitlements to lactating mothers employed in the public service.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has joined the legal barrage directed at the AEU over its proposed NAPLAN moratorium, while Victoria's education department today asked Fair Work Australia to stop the State's teachers participating in the action.
In what the Federal Government says is the biggest shake-up to the compulsory superannuation regime in 20 years, super contributions will be phased up to 12% starting from 2013, with the three-year horizon giving employers time to take the increase into account when negotiating wages with their workers.
