Pay rises in private sector federal agreements lodged in the June quarter have exceeded 4% annually for the first time in 12 months, according to data released by DEWR today that coincides with the Reserve Bank lifting interest rates and saying wage growth has been "contained".
NSW's State Transit Authority was justified in sacking a bus driver for using her hand-held two-way radio while in control of a 16-tonne bus carrying a full load of passengers, a tribunal has ruled.
The ABCC is seeking fines of up to $12,000 for 67 individual workers who defied orders to return to work on the Perth to Mandurah railway construction project, while CFMEU WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald yesterday again faced a court over a trespass charge.
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The Federal Government's fairness test is insufficient to prevent employers using Work Choices to erode the conditions of employees in a weak bargaining position, according to a university report commissioned by the Victorian Government's Workplace Rights Advocate.
CPSU dismisses Telstra legal threats; AFPC extends deadlines for pay scales and junior and training wages submissions; Labour shortages a record concern for SMEs, survey finds; Abolish Work Choices and ABCC, says Tasmanian parliamentary report; and $22,000 penalty for award breaches.
After a year-long negotiating period that included the largest ever secret ballot for industrial action under Work Choices, Australia Post and the CEPU and CPSU have struck an in-principle agreement for a new deal.
Myer's new private equity owners have struck an enterprise deal with the SDA that retains conditions for more than 20,000 employees while moderating their pay levels to bring them into line with Coles group competitors Target and Kmart.
The imperative for organisations faced with skills shortages to differentiate themselves as employers of choice is one of the factors that has driven the continued growth in HR salaries into 2007, the Hudson salary guide has found.
The Workplace Authority will from next week begin publishing on its database the collective agreements that have been lodged with it since the fairness test was introduced on May 7.
