Restaurant employers protesting too much, says Lawrence; AIRC issues s496 order as TWU wildcat stoppage ends; Tourism body targets IR/HR practitioners in campaign to boost uptake of annual leave; US productivity up, but real middle incomes down; PC executive pay inquiry to release issues paper next month; SA engineering employers association members back merger with AiG; and Pay equity hearings in three capitals this week.
Construction company John Holland has won a Federal Court injunction to stop protesting unionists abusing its employees, damaging its property and publicly urinating near one of its offices.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard says the Fair Work Act brings Australia's workplace laws into alignment with key ILO conventions, in the wake of the international organisation making it clear in a new report that it wants the Government to make substantial changes to IR laws so they comply with international standards. But the barrister who prepared the CEPU's recent complaint to the ILO dismisses the Minister's claim as "Orwellian Newspeak".
AFPC denies plan to cancel minimum wage review; Paint workers win big redundancy boost; Financial meltdown could open door for workplace democracy; and EOWA announces employers of choice for women
The Victorian Government has reduced to 2.5% the wages component of future public sector agreements but has in return promised not to retrench employees during the global economic downturn. Meanwhile in the State, hundreds of manufacturing agreements nominally expire next week, but employers are reporting that all is quiet.
In an important ruling that a senior employment lawyer says "breathes new life" into the “matters pertaining” requirement that will continue to constrain agreement content under the Fair Work Act, the Federal Court has found that an income protection clause didn’t have a sufficiently close connection to the employment relationship.
A Nestle subsidiary that inadvertently revealed to a group of employees that one of their colleagues was suspected of being drunk at work was unreasonable in sacking the man over his later reaction, the AIRC has found.
