Fair Work Australia has questioned why workers would vote for a four-year agreement that only provided a pay rise if its loaded hourly rates fell below award base rates, in refusing an employer's application to certify a deal - one of three similar agreements rejected recently.
Pay rises in private sector agreements lodged with FWA in the March quarter delivered 3.8% annually, marking the third successive quarter of sub-4% growth.
The Federal Government has this morning introduced legislation to establish an Age Discrimination Commissioner in the Australian Human Rights Commission as part of a bill reintroducing amendments to strengthen the Sex Discrimination Act.
Australia's only federal Greens MP, former industrial lawyer Adam Bandt, has in his first speech to Parliament today thanked the unions that supported his campaign and maintained there is no real equality before the law when building workers are "worse off than accused criminals".
Industrial action and collective coverage up at BHPB; FWA extends equal pay timetable; Not enough voters in secret ballot; IMF calls for measures to boost labour mobility; and Unions look at future of labour hire.
A stockbroker who repudiated his employment contract must pay half a million dollars in liquidated damages to his former employer, following a NSW Court of Appeal ruling.
The ANF has withdrawn its application for orders to protect some 5,000 aged care nurses in NSW and Queensland from cuts to their earnings under modern awards, in what was to be the first major test of the Fair Work Act's take-home pay provisions.
The Federal Court has this afternoon refused a bid to suppress the names of witnesses in the David Jones s-xual harassment matter, while it has confirmed that it will start hearing the substantive case on December 20.
