A Senate inquiry has unanimously recommended the Government review the eligibility requirements for its paid parental leave scheme, to ensure women with a strong attachment to the workforce are not excluded.
FWA has expressed confidence that the $26-a-week increase it has awarded will not harm employment, but employers have warned it could damage the economy and add to labour cost increases companies already face as a result of award modernisation.
Fair Work Australia's president should not be required to appear before Senate Estimates hearings and Opposition senators should reflect on their continuing insistence that he do so, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard said today.
Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel, in its first decision, has this morning increased modern award minimum weekly rates by $26 - just $1 short of the $27-a-week sought by the ACTU.
A priest with an offshoot of the Catholic Church was an employee of the aged care facility at which he worked and entitled to proceed with his claim for unfair dismissal, FWA has found.
The Coalition has this afternoon tabled advice - which it described as "independent and unambiguous" - from the Clerk of the Senate on FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice's request to reconsider the requirement that he appear before Estimates hearings.
Labour costs down 2.8% over 12 months: ABS; FWO welcomes union/employer variation bids; First Fair Work minimum wage ruling tomorrow; and New take home pay forms issued after FWA president amends rules.
The Coalition senator behind last year's Senate resolution requiring FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice to appear for questioning at Estimates is unmoved by his plea to reconsider, saying it was "water off a duck's back".
FWA President Justice Geoffrey Giudice in an extraordinary statement has called on the Senate to reconsider a resolution requiring him to appear at Estimates hearings, saying it threatens to undermine public confidence in the tribunal's impartiality.
The Ai Group will this week apply to Fair Work Australia to clarify modern award transitional arrangements, after the Fair Work Ombudsman today rejected the employer body's view that cost increases under the new award regime can be absorbed into over-award payments.
