The AIRC's draft Miscellaneous Award could extend coverage to some employees in traditionally award-free roles, while leaving others in need of protection to slip through the cracks, according to University of Adelaide professor of law Andrew Stewart.
NAB and the FSU have agreed to a 15-month agreement extension that will deliver most of the bank's employees 2% annual pay increases and a $750 sign-on bonus, in the first formal bargain struck by a big bank under Labor.
Visy's food packaging division is seeking to use the Fair Work Act's cooling-off provisions to stop about 100 workers at its factory in Melbourne's north striking for three months.
G20 calls for executive remuneration reform in finance; FWA appoints dismissals and agreements director; and Hockey advisor Minna Knight seeking Liberal preselection.
A Federal Court full bench has more than doubled a coercion penalty against the CFMEU, in a comprehensive rewriting of a ruling by a senior judicial member of its industrial panel.
NSW is yet to agree to refer its IR powers to Canberra, while WA is continuing to go its own way, following Friday’s meeting of state and federal IR ministers that also agreed to release the draft uniform OHS laws for public comment. Meanwhile, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has endorsed the AIRC's new draft restaurant industry modern award.
The AMWU has reached an in-principle agreement with the Victorian labour hire group that will deliver several thousand workers a 7% pay increase over two years, but both the union and AiG have found that securing deals in the State's current manufacturing bargaining round has generally been slow going given the economic downturn and a new IR regime.
A controversial new miscellaneous award and a dedicated restaurant industry award – as directed by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard - are among the stage four modern award exposure drafts the AIRC has published today.
A manager with flour miller Manildra did not breach his contractual or fiduciary duties when he schemed to buy and operate a rival mill while still employed by the company, the NSW Supreme Court has found.
Three month delay on politicians' 3% pay increase; Former CEO can't serve claims in England, says Federal Court; SDP Lacy off to Christmas and Cocos Island; and Full bench statement on award modernisation.
