ACTU to consider adopting "permanent campaign footing"; Goodbye Hughie as new team sweeps positions in TWU Queensland branch; Visy employees strike; and Coalition committed to WorkCover Act re-write
A senior FWA member has conditionally granted an employer's bid to change its name on a transitional enterprise agreement to remove ambiguity or uncertainty, but has expressed some anxiety over doing so.
Fair Work Australia could play a central role in mandating "safe rates" for truck drivers under reforms proposed in a new federal government directions paper.
The ETU's Victorian branch has flagged plans to trial the four-day week in the electrical contracting industry, after securing 5% pay increases and improved penalty rates in a new framework deal for the sector negotiated with NECA.
The increased pace of wages growth in the September quarter was not "view changing", and the overall gradual rise in wage rates in Australia was what the Reserve Bank expected for an economy emerging from a downturn, the central bank's governor Glenn Stevens said today.
A fast food employer has failed to secure approval to include a preferred hours clause in its proposed agreement, despite arguing its casual employees would struggle to compete for work without it.
MUA wins ballots at Patricks ports in WA; NSW nurses to close beds if no ratio offer from Government; FWA warns on agreement template; Right to return to part-time work on Brumby agenda; and Correction on desalination plant workforce
The AiG is leading an employer push to prevent what it says is penalty rate double-dipping on public holidays, but unions and the Greens have moved to safeguard employees' rights to penalties when they work on Christmas Day.
The NSW Government has secured the passage of an IR bill aimed at ensuring the survival of significant private sector state awards made redundant by the referral of NSW's IR powers to Canberra.
A failure by former ABC Commissioner John Lloyd to lawfully delegate his functions internally meant the watchdog's notice requiring rigger Ark Tribe to attend a compulsory interview was invalid, the Adelaide Magistrates Court has ruled.
