The Federal Government's renewed IR advertising campaign might have backfired, with 45% of voters saying it made them feel less positive about Work Choices, according to a new opinion poll by Roy Morgan Research.
Workplace Research Centre director John Buchanan has outlined how national labour standards, flexibility and efficiency can be achieved under a three-tier system of IR regulation, while he has criticised the level of consultation when IR policy is being developed.
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Between 23% and 36.3% of Employer Greenfield Agreements lodged in the first year of Work Choices paid rates below the required Australian Pay and Classification Standard, and 79.3% removed all protected award conditions, according to a report released today for the Victorian Government's Workplace Rights Advocate.
Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens has refused to be drawn into the IR debate, but today said it was unhelpful to link labour market changes with interest rates, and pointed out that both sides of politics shared the same inflation target, which his institution was committed to achieving.
The AFPC decision to allow commission-only payments for real estate agents nationally has been welcomed by one of the major providers of AWAs to the sector as providing certainty missing since the introduction of Work Choices but also criticised as likely to create recruitment and administrative problems for employers.
The Coalition’s IR package in place now will be the one it takes to the federal election, Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey said today, while the ALP claimed that 200 labour hire workers with six days’ training – foreign backpackers among them – were administering the Government’s new fairness test.
Most of Qantas's 34,000 employees will receive $2,000 in shares and bonuses, the airline announced today as it revealed its 2006-07 pre-tax profit of more than $1 billion.
A full bench of the AIRC has flowed on to employees on transitional awards paying up to $700-a-week a marginally higher increase ($10.30 rather than $10.25) than that granted by the AFPC in July, but has agreed to the same 12-month exemption for drought affected rural employers and to the October timeline for new rates to be paid.
