The ALAEA says a letter it received today from Qantas asking that tomorrow's planned four-hour stopwork meetings be held off-site has fuelled its concerns that the airline is planning to lock-out its licensed aircraft mechanical engineers.
Rates of pay including bonuses are growing at a new record annual rate of 4.9% in the private sector and 4.7% across the economy, but growth rates in pay excluding bonuses eased slightly to 4.1% seasonally adjusted in the March quarter, according to the ABS Labour Price Index, released today.
Employer groups have been positive overall about the Rudd Government's first Federal Budget, while the ACTU says the tax cuts are well-targeted to low and middle earners and welcomes extra funding for IR agencies.
The Rudd Government has allocated an additional $3.2m to the AIRC for 2008-09 and the Workplace Ombudsman an extra $5.8m, while the Workplace Authority - which faces a reduced workload following the abolition of AWAs - has had its funding slashed for the period by $30m, in the first Labor Budget in 13 years.
Sparke Helmore partner begins employment discrimination action against his own firm; Federal Court to re-convene crucial appeal on union status in June; and Federal Court reserves decision on ABCC appeal against Multiplex ruling;
Ten years after the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute, Patrick and the MUA have reached in-principle agreement on a new three-year enterprise deal that provides a substantial pay rise and boosts paid parental leave.
Thousands of Queensland power workers will go out for 24 hours from 6am tomorrow, in a bid to increase the pay offers from government-owned electricity corporations Energex, Ergon and Powerlink.
Barklamb takes over as workplace policy director at ACCI; Maternity leave inquiry to hear from ACCI, CFMEU, NTEU and Australian Breastfeeding Association tomorrow; and Victorian Government calls for collaborative IR and maintenance of tariffs in car industry.
The Workplace Ombudsman has confirmed that Union Solidarity has responded to its May 8 deadline to respond to a notice in which it sought to establish whether there were formal links between the organisation and the AMWU during the dispute that shut down manufacturing at Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland's Fishermens Bend site last month.
