Private sector wage growth is showing the first tentative signs of easing, with ABS statistics today showing the first sub-1% quarterly growth since at least 2006.
A Toyota worker summarily dismissed after being involved in two violent incidents with a co-worker off-site and after his shift was over has won reinstatement and $32,304 compensation, after the AIRC found there was no valid reason for his sacking.
The Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining provisions would require parties to go through a "marathon" process before seeking a workplace determination, according to Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein.
While major planks of the Federal Government's new IR regime begin on July 1, the provisions that establish the institutional framework for the new system will take effect on Tuesday next week.
Ministers agree to harmonise OHS laws, but WA could spoil the party; Stewart to deliver Richard Kirby Lecture on Thursday; Victorian university staff to strike on Thursday; and WA state wage case starts today.
The Fair Work Act's provisions allowing injunctions to prevent freedom of association breaches and giving Fair Work Australia a new role in promoting low-paid bargaining are among the changes IR experts believe could hold the potential to recast Australia's workplace relations landscape.
The "deep divisions" within the High Court in the 2005 political advertising and the 2006 Work Choices cases reflected equally deep divisions within the Australian community and went on to play a "considerable" part in the 2007 federal election, retired High Court judge Michael Kirby said today.
The ABS has failed in its bid to stay earlier AIRC orders that it allow the 28 employees it told to leave the workplace after a round of job cuts to return to their previous positions.
