The Rudd Government's minimum wage submission to the AFPC today will not nominate an amount for this year's increase, but will seek a "measured" pay rise in line with macro-economic conditions, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard says.
NSW teachers stage series of protests ahead of April 8 stopwork; ACCI to support $10-to-$11 increase, AiG $13.30; and Gillard disallows Hockey's ANF amendment.
Thousands of allied health professionals will strike at public hospitals and health care centres around Victoria from next Tuesday after secret ballots overwhelmingly endorsed the action to escalate their long-running bargaining dispute with the Brumby Government.
Gillard says statistics prove AWAs ripped off workers; Parliamentary library releases digests for transition bill and other IR legislation; Unfair dismissal law resembles decade-old Coalition model, says report; No nirvana for unions under Rudd’s Blairite model, says Lansbury; New Ronalds' guide to discrimination law; and Provide key details about jobs, or turn off jobseekers, says report.
ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence today argued that the Fair Pay Commission should not discount any increases in its forthcoming minimum wages determination against the Government's promised tax cuts, or any possible superannuation changes.
For the first time under Work Choices, a court has found an IR consultant jointly liable with an employer for applying duress to an employee to make an AWA.
A prominent Perth builder who exploited 15 vulnerable subclass 457 guest workers, mostly from the Philippines, when he deliberately breached AWA approval and lodgement obligations has been ordered to pay a record $174,000 in penalties.
The Senate committee inquiring into the ALP's transitional IR bill has until Monday to hand down its report after five days of hearings finished in Canberra today with evidence from DEEWR, in which it acknowledged there was no official "end point" for ITEAS or AWAs.
