The employment impact of minimum wage setting is "trivial" compared to overall macroeconomic policy, according to visiting US expert Professor David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine.
If it is elected, a Rudd Labor Government could be able to push through its IR agenda via regulation and administrative measures, even if it doesn’t have control of the Senate, AMMA’s Chris Platt told a Sydney confererence today.
The Federal Government’s fairness test, its appointment of Barbara Bennett to head the Workplace Authority and its current $37 million IR advertising campaign all followed internal research showing Work Choices had caused widespread feelings of fear and disempowerment in the community, a leaked report shows.
Victorian IR Minister and newly sworn-in Deputy Premier Rob Hulls today denied that a State Government-funded advertising campaign attacking Work Choices was political, as five Labor state and territory workplace advocates met to consider combined new strategies against the federal laws.
A Rudd Labor Government would revitalise the national work and family awards, with changes including new industry-specific awards and a work and family best practice accreditation program that will be available to all employers, according to Shadow IR Minister Julia Gillard.
The ABCC will not be prosecuting WA CFMEU assistant secretary Joe McDonald or 71 workers involved in a “blue flu” outbreak on a John Holland site in WA two years ago despite "concluding” they engaged in unlawful industrial action.
The Senate committee inquiring into the Federal Government’s legislation imposing sanctions and penalties on employers who don’t comply with their subclass 457 visa obligations has unanimously recommended the bill be passed, with only three minor changes.
Law firms are increasingly likely to offer sign-on bonuses, mobile phones and lifestyle benefits such as four-day weeks in an increasingly tight market for solicitors, according to Mahlab Recruitment’s latest salary surveys. The surveys also reveals big jumps in pay for in-house HR practitioners in law firms.
Virgin Blue pilots are in the process of setting up their own union, after becoming disenchanted with their current representation by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots.
