The Federal Government has revealed that the BOOT will be applied three times over the five-year maximum life of agreements during the modern award transition phase.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has directed the AIRC's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, to create a separate modern award for the restaurant, cafe and catering sector that contains appropriate penalty and overtime rates.
ABCC not weakened, says Lloyd; Union protest against Pacific Brands sending machinery offshore; and New APRA discussion paper on remuneration for financial services
Employers should not automatically ban employees from accessing personal email and social networking sites at work and should not discipline them for reasonable private use of the internet during work hours, according to a "future of work" plan to be presented at ACTU Congress next week.
Victoria's key public sector union and peak employer group have backed the process for renewing the State's referral of its IR powers to the Commonwealth, while a leading IR academic says the "interesting" approach taken is an improvement on the original referral in 1996.
With unions set to next week again endorse a call to abolish the ABCC and the BCII Act at ACTU Congress in Brisbane, the peak body's president Sharan Burrow has downplayed the likelihood of the issue spilling into a confrontation with the Federal Government at the ALP's national conference in July, saying she was confident there would be a negotiated outcome.
The Federal Government has warned the Australian Fair Pay Commission a cut in the real value of the minimum wage would be unlikely to create jobs and could further weaken the economy.
The Federal Government is seeking to amend its transitional legislation to clarify that Fair Work Australia will have the power to make demarcation orders when a turf dispute between unions is "threatened, impending or probable".
A court has awarded a former sales manager $20,000 in damages after finding he was induced to take the job because of misrepresentations by his employer about the bonus he would receive.
