The AIRC seven-member award modernisation full bench has today decided to make 14 priority modern awards; confined its model flexibility clause to agreements between employers and individuals - which cannot be offered as a condition of employment - and finalised its timetable for the process.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has today promised to make available to researchers the fairness test AWAs that were kept secret by the Howard Government, but did not promise to revive the Australian Workplace IR Survey, despite criticising the Coalition for failing to collect and release IR data while in office.
The NSW branch of the CFMEU (construction division) has begun signing up employers to its latest bargaining claim, which delivers workers 5% annual increases until 2011 - slightly discounted by a smaller increment agreed to for this October in the now expired last-round deal.
The ALAEA will begin rolling strikes at Qantas on Monday after a series of meetings between the union and the airline failed to resolve the deadlock over their pay dispute.
A court has restrained a former employee's use of confidential information, after he inadvertently sent an email to his former employer that appeared to draw on secret data.
HR directors can earn up to $400,000 in NSW, while IR/ER managers can get up to $170,000 in WA and Queensland, according to a HR salary guide released today.
The Federal Government's release yesterday of its new National Employment Standards plus its revised award modernisation request have answered many significant questions about the safety net under Forward with Fairness, but there are still pieces of the jigsaw missing.
