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The Federal Government's fairness test is insufficient to prevent employers using Work Choices to erode the conditions of employees in a weak bargaining position, according to a university report commissioned by the Victorian Government's Workplace Rights Advocate.
CPSU dismisses Telstra legal threats; AFPC extends deadlines for pay scales and junior and training wages submissions; Labour shortages a record concern for SMEs, survey finds; Abolish Work Choices and ABCC, says Tasmanian parliamentary report; and $22,000 penalty for award breaches.
After a year-long negotiating period that included the largest ever secret ballot for industrial action under Work Choices, Australia Post and the CEPU and CPSU have struck an in-principle agreement for a new deal.
Myer's new private equity owners have struck an enterprise deal with the SDA that retains conditions for more than 20,000 employees while moderating their pay levels to bring them into line with Coles group competitors Target and Kmart.
The imperative for organisations faced with skills shortages to differentiate themselves as employers of choice is one of the factors that has driven the continued growth in HR salaries into 2007, the Hudson salary guide has found.
The Workplace Authority will from next week begin publishing on its database the collective agreements that have been lodged with it since the fairness test was introduced on May 7.
Labor ramps up message that Coalition will take Work Choices further; Unions target Chinese-speaking community with new Cochlear commercials; and Productivity on the docks has increased, ACCC finds.
A recent UK court judgment has provided for specific performance of an employment contract, in what UNSW associate professor Joellen Riley says is a novel ruling that shows the common law is developing more sophisticated and appropriate remedies for employment contract breaches.
Ear implant manufacturer Cochlear has refused to rule out taking some kind of retaliatory action against two union members who today spoke out against a policy they claim stops workers using languages other than English in the workplace.
