ACTU president Sharan Burrow today fleshed out unions’ plans to improve income security for Australian workers displaced as a result of the Global Financial Crisis, saying it is time to “reinvent” the social insurance base.
The ACTU and AiG are at loggerheads over the question of whether transitional provisions in modern awards should be used to protect employees from being disadvantaged by the modernisation process.
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The ACTU's triennial Congress will this week consider a resolution calling on the Government to impose legal limits on the "ethically unacceptable and economically dangerous" remuneration flowing to corporate executives.
The Federal Government has revealed that the BOOT will be applied three times over the five-year maximum life of agreements during the modern award transition phase.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has directed the AIRC's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, to create a separate modern award for the restaurant, cafe and catering sector that contains appropriate penalty and overtime rates.
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Employers should not automatically ban employees from accessing personal email and social networking sites at work and should not discipline them for reasonable private use of the internet during work hours, according to a "future of work" plan to be presented at ACTU Congress next week.
Victoria's key public sector union and peak employer group have backed the process for renewing the State's referral of its IR powers to the Commonwealth, while a leading IR academic says the "interesting" approach taken is an improvement on the original referral in 1996.
With unions set to next week again endorse a call to abolish the ABCC and the BCII Act at ACTU Congress in Brisbane, the peak body's president Sharan Burrow has downplayed the likelihood of the issue spilling into a confrontation with the Federal Government at the ALP's national conference in July, saying she was confident there would be a negotiated outcome.
