FWA has approved a deal for Sydney Water after conciliating a dispute over what unions maintained was a backdoor bid by the organisation to get the model individual flexibility term inserted into its agreement.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow is the sole contender to become the International Trade Union Confederation's next general secretary, all but guaranteeing that she will depart Australia's peak union body in mid-2010.
A senior engineer made redundant during the global financial crisis has failed in his bid for damages over his employer's representation that he would have the job until retirement.
New FWA member rejects apprehended bias claim; Lloyd, Kierath and Abetz to speak at HR Nicholls conference; Australia Post and CEPU make bargaining peace pact; FWO to investigate union recruitment outsourcer; and BA cabin crew near end of three-day stoppage, preparing for four-day strike
The Federal Government has urged Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel to deliver a real wage increase to 1.45 million low-paid employees, after their pay had "gone backwards" following the Fair Pay Commission's decision last year to freeze minimum wages. It also advocates that FWA's President refer to an internal inquiry any equal pay questions arising from submissions.
The Federal Court has ordered a global oil and gas industry recruiter to give a forensic expert access to its IT systems to search for sensitive information it allegedly acquired from a rival company's former managing director.
Key employer groups will urge Fair Work Australia to lift minimum wages by less than a third of the $27 a week sought by the ACTU, with the AiG advocating a $12-a-week increase and ACCI rises of between $10.50 and $12.50.
The CPSU (PSU group) will seek a single, comprehensive APS-wide agreement that provides a common platform of pay and conditions, while still allowing some agency-level negotiation, when current agreements expire in mid-2011.
Is overtime one of the terms and conditions subject to the transitional provisions in modern awards? The answer is "yes", "no", or "it's a grey area", depending on who you ask - a situation that has led to a series of meetings between the ACTU, peak employer bodies and the FWO in an attempt to end the confusion.
