While the ACTU has welcomed the AFPC's across-the-board $21.66 increase to minimum rates today as "recognising that working families are doing it hard" and the Federal Government has described it as "appropriate", the ACCI maintains the pay rise is "economically risky", and the AiG says it is "on the high side of expectations and will add to the pressures already on business".
In its third minimum wage determination - and its first under a Labor Government - the Australian Fair Pay Commission has this afternoon awarded an across-the-board $21.66-a-week pay increase to employees on minimum rates.
Patrick and the MUA last week secured an extension of their enterprise agreement until October 2010, taking advantage of the fast approval process offered under the agreement variation and extension provisions of the Rudd Government's transitional IR legislation.
The AIRC will on Thursday begin hearing Railcorp's bid to end the bargaining period with five unions, if a last-ditch meeting with NSW Transport Minister John Watkins this morning fails to resolve the dispute.
The AIRC will tomorrow morning begin hearing a Railcorp application to suspend bargaining periods with five unions, in a bid to head off a protected strike planned for July 17, at the height of World Youth Day.
The Federal Court has adjourned legal action over infighting in the NSW ASU, saying the court should be used only as a "last resort" to solve internal union disputes.
A CFMEU official faces fines and the loss of his entry permit after the Federal Court found he obstructed a concrete pour at an apartment complex construction site in Adelaide in 2004.
NSW power generators extend agreements; Union can be present in private dispute hearing; Union can be present in private dispute hearing, says AIRC; AIRC agrees to vary ballot timetable after employees left off list; Ministers meet on skilled migration; and ACTU reiterates support for emissions trading scheme.
Bargaining ruling shows common sense, says Bornstein; No more Work Choices advertising as Government changes law; Day of action by NSW public servants; COAG agreement on national OHS system; Company fined $100,000 for treatment of s457 visa workers; ABCC focuses on Queensland; Super changes begin this week; Super major contributor to household wealth, HILDA finds; CFMEU fails in bid for costs.
