CFMEU (construction division) WA assistant secretary Joe McDonald faces up to 12 months in jail and a $12,000 fine after WA's Court of Appeal found him guilty of trespass yesterday.
The DEEWR has produced a detailed table comparing the new NES entitlements with minimum conditions in States and Territories throughout Australia and has also told the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations committee inquiry into the Fair Work Bill that the legislation's pattern bargaining and industrial action rules comply with ILO conventions despite their restrictions.
The AIRC's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has accepted the role as the first President of Fair Work Australia, which is to be established by the Fair Work Bill.
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Employers will have to pay market rates for 457 visa holders and will have to reimburse the Government for costs incurred if the temporary workers do not leave the country voluntarily, but they will no longer have to pay the workers' health care costs, under draft employer obligation regulations released today by Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans.
Westgate bridge upgrade head contractor John Holland fears the CFMEU and AMWU will escalate a dispute at the site if it refuses to abandon a proposed wage deal with the AWU.
Measures to improve women's equality have moved up the bargaining agenda in the federal public sector in the wake of new bargaining guidelines and the CPSU adopting a template log incorporating 28 weeks paid parental leave, but agencies are struggling to comply with the new "genuine bargaining" obligations, according to Sydney University's Sue Williamson.
Queensland IRC President David Hall - who is about to have his administrative powers returned via legislation introduced to State Parliament yesterday - has launched an extraordinary attack on members of his Commission, saying they might have engaged in a "deliberate untruth", acted in a "misleading" manner, and published disinformation.
