NSW Government hands state IRC exclusive IR coverage; AIRC dismisses cost application over unfair dismissal "imbroglio"; Prisoner loses appeal against finding that he was not an employee; and more.
Air Services Australia has reached agreement with air traffic controllers on a new wage deal, but faces strike action by backroom and technical staff after negotiations with unions broke down.
State governments have called on the Australian Fair Pay Commission to award an increase that maintains the real value of low-paid workers' pay in this year's minimum wage review.
NUW members have voted up a proposal that will roll the union's Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia branches into a new "general" branch.
In another setback in their 18-month long bid to have their deal bedded down, the AIRC has rejected an application by the SDA and McDonald's to vary and extend a 2004 agreement covering the company's South Australian and Northern Territory franchises because some of the fast-food outlets' owners have changed.
Government to remove IR exemption from FOI laws; ACTU video welcomes passing of Fair Work Bill; Get tough on bank job shedding, says FSU; NZ Govt to subsidise nine-day fortnight; CFMEU fined for coercing employer over AWAs; April 9 deadline for submissions to transitional IR Bill inquiry; and WA minimum wage case calls for submissions
Small businesses could find it difficult to figure out if they fall under the new 15 full-time equivalent employee unfair dismissal threshold according to the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrew Stewart, who has produced a new guide to the Fair Work legislation.
The Federal Government has told the Australian Fair Pay Commission it risks increasing unemployment if it delivers an "excessive" wage rise to the low-paid in this year's minimum wage review.
