Leading figures in the IR community have featured prominently in the list of 1,000 people who will participate in the Rudd Government's 2020 Summit in Canberra next month.
The Federal Government has closed the gap in the Work Choices regulations that allowed state unions and employer groups to extend their coverage nationwide when seeking registration as a federal organisation.
In a first for grocery retailers, fast-growing Aldi Stores will from next week provide 14 weeks maternity leave on half pay to its 3,300 permanent employees, 60% of them women. Meanwhile, the shop union's leader, Joe de Bruyn, says Myer's new paid maternity leave entitlement will put pressure on David Jones to go down the same track during its current bargaining negotiations.
Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says the Coalition's support for future individual statutory employment agreements would be tied to them passing an ITEA-style no-disadvantage test.
When the Rudd Government announced its new public sector bargaining guidelines, among the reforms the CPSU welcomed was an end to agencies being able to insist on non-union agreements. But, the union maintains, it is now in a struggle with CRS Australia that does not reflect the fact that the bargaining environment has changed.
Retailer fined for paying employees as independent contractors; Rudd puts emphasis on productivity in speech on reform agenda; CPSU sets strategy for next five years; Amended Workplace Relations Regulations now available; and Mitsubishi plant produces last cars.
National retailer Myer has taken the lead in its sector on paid parental leave, today introducing a six-week benefit for its 10,000 permanent employees.
Transitional IR legislation gets Royal Assent, but yet to be proclaimed; Nelson promoted to national John Holland role; Telstra to voluntarily backpay $700,000; Carers' responsibility discrimination claim fails; and LHMU settles unfair dismissal case with former organiser.
A Sydney police officer who was sacked after being found guilty of drink-driving causing grievous bodily harm has been reinstated by the NSW IRC after it found his dismissal was harsh.
