Inflation will be at 4% for 2008, says Reserve Bank; Egan joins Keating in criticising Robertson, Riordan; Nelson outlines four IR policy beliefs; AIRC refuses secret ballot extension; and Rules change for AIRC.
The Tax Office unlawfully discriminated against a compliance officer when it sacked him because it believed he had high blood pressure, the Federal Court has found.
Qantas's licensed aircraft mechanical engineers will apply overtime bans from Thursday after voting overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action - including 48-hour stoppages - in a secret ballot.
Climate change is now the top political priority for the AWU, because Australia's response has the potential to severely affect energy-intensive industries employing many of its 135,000 members, such as aluminium, steel, cement, petrochemicals and oil and gas, according to the union's national secretary, Paul Howes.
It wasn't excessive to impose a $170,000 penalty on an employer for its deliberate, reprehensible conduct in applying duress to force vulnerable employees to sign AWAs, a Federal Court full bench majority has ruled.
A Federal Court full bench has upheld a finding that Qantas discriminated against an engineer because of his race, but has quashed a disability finding.
Award modernisation consultations start on May 26; Australian Business Industrial withdrawing federal registration bid; and Cabinet minute on Labor IR plans prepared before policy released: Gillard.
The Productivity Commission's inquiry into paid parental leave will tomorrow in Canberra hear from the author of a proposal for 28 weeks of paid maternity leave, funded partly through an insurance scheme.
ACTU urges employers to bargain without content restrictions; Reserve Bank warns again on wages; Government didn't block FoI information, says Swan; Keating says NSW union leaders blocking key microeconomic reform; and O'Hara joins Dibbs Abbott Stillman.
