Fears of a wages breakout are likely to be soothed by the DEWRR's latest data on pay rises under federal enterprise agreements, which show they dipped slightly to 3.7% a year in the private sector in the March quarter, largely as a result of modest increases in a major retail deal. Pay rises in non-union deals also overtook those in union deals, while rises in WA were well ahead of other states.
New parliamentary inquiry into gender pay equity and female participation; AWU's nuclear vision "fanciful" says coal mining union leader; Time to review restrictive laws governing industrial action, says paper.
NSW's 42,000 public hospital nurses and midwives have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a pay offer from the State Government that delivers a minimum 7.8% over two years in return for trade-offs that include a reduced ability to accumulate days off and less unsupported single-day absences.
With a further two days of industrial action by Qantas aircraft engineers due to begin tomorrow, the Workplace Ombudsman is investigating whether a "black-list" of strike-breakers is in breach of freedom of association laws, while the ALAEA, ACTU and the airline are planning to meet again on Monday.
The four remaining senators from the party that played a key role on IR for most of the Howard years - the Australian Democrats - are sitting in federal parliament for the last time today.
The AIRC has agreed to extend and vary a pre-Work Choices agreement for SPL Group's Brisbane warehouse to provide annual pay rises of 4.5% this year and next year, but has declined to backdate the deal to the first increase in February this year, saying this would be justified only in "compelling" circumstances.
Unfair dismissal remuneration cap to rise to $106,400; CFMEU WA leadership contender pledges to end union’s links to Burke; and AWU to push for carbon capture and storage.
The Health Services Union's leader, Kathy Jackson, has hit out at the ACTU's leadership for backing the ANF proposal for a priority modern award for nursing, saying the AIRC's decision on Friday emphasised that modern awards would be primarily industry-based and vindicated her union's opposition to the plan.
Washington in court in August; Maddison leaving CFMEU; Deal close in Victorian construction; Labor acknowledges departing senators; and TCFU accuses Feltex of requiring meeting in toilet.
