Working parents with primary care reponsibility for a new-born child will be entitled to 18 weeks of paid parental leave from 2011, but only if they earn less than $150,000 per year, the Federal Government announced yesterday.
Workers covered by the Clerks Private Sector Modern Award and mining employers could be the big winnners under a new variation to the award modernisation request issued by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard today.
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Mining giant BHP Billiton will introduce a minimum 18 weeks paid parental leave scheme across its global workforce from July 1 this year, it announced today.
The Master Builders Association and Shadow IR Minister Michael Keenan say a new report showing labour productivity continued to improve in the construction industry last year highlights the ongoing need for a strong IR watchdog in the sector.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has today made it clear that she is unlikely to adopt yesterday's recommendation by her ALP Senate colleagues to allow Fair Work Australia to terminate substandard Work Choices deals within their nominal expiry dates.
The ALP senators who form the majority on the Senate Employment, Education and Workplace Relations Committee have taken on board union concerns about sub-standard Work Choices agreements continuing under the Federal Government's new IR regime, recommending that Fair Work Australia be given the power to terminate or vary them. They have also said the transitional IR bill's new representation order provisions aimed at addressing union coverage disputes are unnecessary and should be scrapped.
In a split decision, a Federal Court full bench majority has over-turned an earlier ruling that the redundancy provision in the national building and construction industry award was an incentive payment and therefore an allowable matter under Work Choices.
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The Federal Court has set aside five days in February next year to hear John Holland's case against the MUA and employees of a contractor on the Sydney desalination plant who walked off the job last year citing safety concerns.
