Real non-farm unit labour costs have risen by 1.3% in the past year in trend terms, while GDP per hour worked in the market sector has fallen by 0.7%, according to the ABS.
Full bench to make JJ Richards ruling tomorrow; $123,000 fine for employer that exploited visa workers; MUA withdraws Brisbane industrial action; Mining has Australia's highest sales per worker, says ABS; Research paper canvasses employee entitlement issues; Striptease artists' union deregistered.
Fair Work Australia has upheld GM Holden's summary dismissal of two long-serving employees it accused of involvement in a criminal enterprise to steal car parts, but has reinstated a third worker after finding the company couldn't sustain the case against him.
Fair Work Australia will tomorrow seek to hold discussions between the CPSU and the Australian Public Service Commission, after the tribunal today conducted a hearing into the bargaining dispute between the union and major APS agencies.
A Serco subsidiary that contracted to the Victorian Government was justified in summarily dismissing a mobile speed camera operator who drove at more than twice the speed limit and at up to 123kmh in 100 zones, Fair Work Australia has found.
The Greens are urging for all states to give unions the right to launch OHS prosecutions, after the NSW Upper House rejected the Government's plan to strip the power from employee organisations.
BHP Coal could face industrial action at its seven mainly coking coal mines in the Bowen Basin next month, with mineworkers likely to vote up a strike ballot that closes on June 2, while FWA has rejected the company's proposition about how the ballot should be conducted.
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has called on employers to be vocal if they believe there are problems with the Fair Work Act, saying the Opposition will only make IR changes if there is public support for it to do so.
There is a wages breakout, the Fair Work Act is destroying the economy, Australia is grinding to a halt with the skills shortage, and unions aren’t prepared to engage constructively with employers - not so, says ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence, who has gone onto the front foot in seeking to dispel what he says are IR "myths".
MUA members at Patrick’s Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle container terminals are likely to lift their protected bans this morning, after the company stopped paying them and refused to use their labour.
