Award modernisation consultations start on May 26; Australian Business Industrial withdrawing federal registration bid; and Cabinet minute on Labor IR plans prepared before policy released: Gillard.
The Productivity Commission's inquiry into paid parental leave will tomorrow in Canberra hear from the author of a proposal for 28 weeks of paid maternity leave, funded partly through an insurance scheme.
ACTU urges employers to bargain without content restrictions; Reserve Bank warns again on wages; Government didn't block FoI information, says Swan; Keating says NSW union leaders blocking key microeconomic reform; and O'Hara joins Dibbs Abbott Stillman.
ACT Health discriminated against a pathologist when it presumed she had a psychiatric illness and suspended her on full pay, a discrimination tribunal has found.
The Federal Government will from July establish specialist centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to process subclass 457 visa applications and has also allocated extra resources to clear the current backlog by June 30, Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans said yesterday.
Victorian teachers to be wage pacesetters; Qantas engineers' strike ballot closes Thursday; SA IRC special sitting to welcome new member; and Unions NSW resolutions to NSW ALP conference now available.
The NSW labour movement's parliamentary and industrial wings have vowed to drive a hard bargain in negotiating a national IR regime with federal Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard, insisting that the state's worker-friendly architecture form the basis of the new system.
The NSW ALP’s supreme policy-making body today for the second time in 24 hours sought to assert its authority over its parliamentary leadership, after Premier Morris Iemma announced he would defy the party and go ahead with power privatisation plans.
NSW Treasurer Michael Costa remained defiant this evening after the State ALP conference voted by a margin of seven to one against the Iemma Government’s plans to privatise and lease out the state’s power assets.
