Private sector pay growth falls to 2.5% a year; Gender pay gap widens; Lynch takes NSW IR portfolio; FWA sets process for varying expense-related allowances.
The Coalition has today given the clearest indication yet that it has backed away from proposing significant IR change, with Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Eric Abetz saying its policy going into the federal election will be a “tweaking” of the Rudd Government’s laws.
Female-dominated and white-collar unions will be at the forefront of a new labour movement agenda focused on social policy reform in areas such as health, education and climate change, ACTU president-elect Ged Kearney said today.
FWA approves Woolies deal; Nurses' take-home pay case listed for September; Catholic employers criticise Government over catch-up quantum; Court rejects CFMEU penalty appeal; and FWA rejects hockey club's penalty plea
AWU Queensland branch senior industrial advocate Chris Simpson has been appointed as a Brisbane-based FWA commissioner, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard announced this afternoon.
Hockey highlights waterfront as proof of Coalition IR reform credentials; Moderate pay rise for HR/IR practitioners in 2010-11: AIM; Big domestic emissions reductions can boost jobs/economy, say ACTU and ACF; NSW Government signs up to Clean Start; and No modern award for spin sector.
A FWA full bench has upheld Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard's appeal against a single member ruling that threatened to significantly limit the usefulness of individual flexibility arrangements.
The Victorian Supreme Court has confirmed that damages for loss of opportunity are available to employees making wrongful dismissal claims, in awarding the former editor of a Melbourne newspaper a $580,000 payout.
No good faith argument for refusing approval of agreement; Employer should have prepared "new, intelligible" agreement; Agreement rejected, after employer fails to identify disadvantages; and No underlying award for pet motel's agreement.
ACCI has told FWA it would be "wrong in principle" to compensate employees for the 2009 minimum wage freeze, while the AiG urged it to take into account the impact of tax cuts on workers' hip-pockets in making its decision.
