Former NSW BLF secretary and green bans movement founder Jack Mundey said today the unlawful status of environmental bans was "a tremendous weakness" in the Fair Work Act, ahead of debate this afternoon on Labor's IR platform at the party's national conference.
Suppliers to the Federal Government will be deemed to have breached their supply contracts if they breach the Fair Work Act, under Fair Work Principles launched by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard today.
Federal Court says agreed penalty is high, union "thuggery" will be cheap, says Fielding; Age discrimination a hidden problem, report finds; and Fair hotels get five stars under new LHMU rating system.
The NSW IRC has increased the State's minimum wage by $15.50 to $568.20 a week, rejecting employer calls to follow the AFPC's wage freeze and saying it would be "inconceivable" for a body charged with protecting the low-paid not to award an increase.
The Federal Government will train 30,000 apprentices in "practical, job ready" green skills in 2010 and 2011, under a plan announced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the ALP's biennial national conference today.
A former workshop manager at a small manufacturer engaged in "dishonest and fraudulent" conduct when he used confidential information obtained in the job to help set up a competing business, the WA Supreme Court has ruled.
The Federal Government will consult with unions and employer groups as well as the peak bodies for small business and the self-employed over the next three months to finalise details of its paid parental leave scheme, which is due to begin in January 2011.
The AMWU is trying to force Cochlear to the bargaining table by applying to Fair Work Australia for a majority support determination, in what looms as an important test of the Government's new IR laws.
In its first good faith bargaining order, Fair Work Australia has told an employer to halt a ballot for a proposed agreement and to have a series of meetings with the ASU.
Employer groups and the Coalition have criticised a demand by the CFMEU (construction and general division) WA branch for employers to sign a good faith bargaining manifesto they say goes beyond the requirements in the Fair Work Act.
