In its second minimum wage determination, handed down this morning, the Australian Fair Pay Commission has awarded another two-tiered increase, with employees on pay scales up to $700-a-week to receive $10.26-a-week extra and those earning more than that $5.30 - effective from October 1.
The fact sheet that all federal system employers must give to current employees by October 20 has been released by the government and is available from today on the internet or by telephone order.
Shadow IR Minister Julia Gillard today resisted pressure from business groups to reveal more details of Labor's IR policies on secondary boycotts, employers' common law rights, union right of entry and transitional arrangements for the abolition of AWAs.
The decision to allow John Holland to exit the state workers compensation scheme in favour of the Federal Government's self-insurance option under Comcare is under challenge in the Federal Court.
Central Queensland University breached the consultative provisions in its certified agreement when it decided not to renew the contracts of 25% of its general staff, the AIRC has found in private arbitration.
School students are particularly vulnerable to unscrupulous employers and have little understanding of their bargaining rights under Work Choices, according to a survey for the NSW Teachers Federation that Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey immediately dismissed as "a political stunt".
Prime Minister John Howard last night used a speech to a national small business summit to seek to portray Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd as a "patsy" of the union movement.
A sacked glass factory worker has had his unfair dismissal case rejected by the AIRC after it found the employer cut staff for genuine operational reasons due to a business downturn.
