Western Australia's industrial tribunal has increased the minimum wage by $17.50 to $587.20 a week for workers covered by the State IR system, in a ruling that has drawn criticism from both unions and employers.
Will the new national safety net combined with other factors, such as the FWO's high level of energy as an enforcement agency, reduce the level of enterprise bargaining in Australia? That, says FWA's Vice President Graeme Watson, is one of the challenges facing the national IR regime.
A right of entry clause in Dunlop Foams' agreement is unlawful, a Fair Work Australia full bench has ruled, in a decision welcomed by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard and employer groups today.
Rail unions win Federal Court privatisation case; FWA rejects pattern bargaining claim; Refinery workers ordered to end night shift ban; Deadline approaches for Division 2B State Awards; and CFMEU releases new pro-mining-tax tv commercial.
The FWO is expecting a spike in calls to its helpline to coincide with the July 1 start to the phase-in of modern award transitional provisions; describes its major employer branch as "an experiment"; and says it is too early to tell whether IFAs are being misused.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a labour-hire agency's proposed enterprise agreement after finding it would cover two distinct and unrelated classes of employees and that it failed the "genuinely agreed" test because part-time office clerks had voted up a deal that also applied to on-hire health workers.
Sending SMS message with web address not good enough; IBM workers win protected action ballot; Queensland Rail employees back to work; Court rules on Fair Work jurisdiction; and FWA issues draft minimum wage determinations
A Federal Court full court majority has bumped up by $20,000 a penalty imposed on the construction union for coercion and unlawful strike action, while the minority judge has questioned the relevance to BCII Act proceedings of concepts drawn from criminal law.
