The 81,000 award-covered workers in South Australia have won a $24.50 weekly pay rise from October 1, after the SA IRC handed down its State Wage Case decision today.
Rio Tinto train drivers could disrupt deliveries of iron ore to ports for export from early next month, if they vote in support of a pre-strike ballot being sought by the CFMEU's mining and energy division in the AIRC tomorrow in Perth.
A full bench of the AIRC has refused the ALAEA leave to appeal an earlier finding that Qantas had the right to cancel annual leave it had already approved for its licenced aircraft engineers - which the airline did at the height of the parties' bargaining dispute earlier this year.
Some 37,000 Western Australian public sector employees will receive a pay increase of at least 4.05% a year and enhanced work/life entitlements - including 12 months unpaid grandparental leave - under an agreement voted up last week.
The Australian Institute of Employment Rights wants the Federal Government to legislate to ensure employees have the right to dignity of work in the wake of the Federal Court's ruling last week that Tristar did not act unlawfully by keeping on its workers, even though they had almost no meaningful work to do and it caused them significant harm.
The fairness test knocked the harshest edges off the Work Choices agreement-making regime, particularly in non-union environments, the Workplace Research Centre says in the last edition of its 15-year-old ADAM report, which has been killed off by the Workplace Authority's late release of data.
The hospitality industry will continue pushing to trial a low-skilled guest worker program in hospitality, after the Federal Government yesterday announced a pilot scheme that is confined to the horticulture sector.
State and federal IR ministers to discuss substantive IR legislation, national IR system on Friday; Gillard's IR policy advisors move on; HR Nicholls' Day faces off against former Howard IR advisor in Makin contest
