Inflation result to heighten wage-price spiral fears; Give workers carbon permits, says AWU; AMWU says polling shows members want Government investment in low carbon technologies; and Work Choices advisor Briggs wins Liberal preselection.
The ACTU is pressing the Rudd Government to amend its transitional legislation and award modernisation request to ensure workers are not worse off and extend the December 31 deadline for completing the priority modern awards.
Teachers in Western Australian public schools will receive pay rises of between 15.84% and 21.67% over three years - making them the best paid in Australia - under a breakthrough agreement between the Carpenter State Government and the State School Teachers' union ahead of the arbitration of their long-running dispute.
Driving down sexual harassment in the workplace, introducing paid maternity leave and strengthening sex discrimination legislation are three of the five areas federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick has identified as her priorities in improving gender equality in Australia.
The AIRC has delayed pre-drafting consultations for six priority modern awards and changed submission deadlines for all priority awards, after a request from the ACTU.
A Federal Court full bench majority has quashed the registration of the Australian Principals Federation, after finding on a "very narrow" basis that its registration had no legal foundation.
Telstra says a confidential document released by the ACTU detailing the company's strategy for last year's roll-out of 15,000 AWAs is "nothing new" and has already been investigated by the Workplace Ombudsman.
Wages growth to be at least 4.4%, jobs to keep growing, says Access Economics; Reserve Bank plays down risk of wages/inflation spiral; WO clears Telstra of AWA duress, but finds case against one manager; and Queensland urges older workers to put off retirement.
The WA Supreme Court has cast doubt on the motives of the WA construction union’s leadership in seeking an injunction to stop challenger Darren Kavanagh from using membership lists that it alleges he unlawfully obtained.
Qantas and its licenced aircraft maintenance engineers reached in-principle agreement last night, bringing to an end the industrial action that has seriously disrupted flight schedules, while the airline has today announced it will cut about 1,500 jobs in response to rising fuel prices.
