Industrial action could be averted at two of Coal and Allied's largest coal mining operations in the Hunter Valley if workers tomorrow endorse offers delivering 13.5% over three years but with few guarantees on job security.
The Australian Industry Group has sought to intervene in Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard's appeal against a FWA ruling that limits the scope for individual flexibility arrangements to vary the terms of agreements.
State governments have called on Fair Work Australia to make separate minimum wage rulings for employees on higher state award rates to ensure they don't have to endure a pay freeze as a result of moving to the national system.
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.
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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.
