FWA President Justice Geoffrey Giudice relied on the Fair Work Act's privilege and immunity provision to refuse to answer an Opposition question on a missing award schedule during another tense appearance before Senate Estimates yesterday.
Growth in private sector pay rates excluding bonuses has accelerated to 3.8% a year in trend terms, according to the ABS, as wage rates recover from post-GFC lows.
The Federal Government will hold a teleconference with employers and unions next Tuesday in an attempt to resolve questions about obligations to pay annual leave loading in termination payments, after Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans acknowledged an "undesirable" conflict between the NES and leave loading provisions in some awards.
The ABCC will apply new safeguards to the exercise of its coercive powers, including inviting the Commonwealth Ombudsman to investigate each time the watchdog subjects an employee to a compulsory grilling.
FWO stresses employers must pay leave loading on accrued leave for departing employees; Dick retains IR after reshuffle; FWA President pays tribute to Mansfield; and Disability/carers bias claim proceeds, despite employee's failings.
NSW's 43,000 public sector nurses and midwives have won pay rises averaging more than 3% a year and increases in staffing ratios under a new deal with the State Government expected to be formalised tomorrow.
An employer has successfully defended an employee's unfair dismissal claim after showing it reasonably believed he fraudulently overstated his working hours and that it sacked him in accordance with the Fair Dismissal Code.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has today ruled out requiring employers to financially contribute to training apprentices, rejecting a key recommendation of a new report on the training and apprenticeship system.
ALP elders call for union member opt-in; Matter ‘too complex’ for Coles to argue: FWA; CFMEU misled workers during "relaxed workplace debate": court; and FWA wage review consultations heading for the regions
