Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has granted a request by the ANF's WA branch to amend the Work Choices regulations to allow it to apply for federal registration in its own right.
Howard Government launches investigations into TWU fund; TWU issues statement on fund claims; WA construction union launches safety advertising campaign; Della Bosca says Chili's restaurant audit reveals $45,000 in underpayments; ANF hits back at Hockey; and Chief executive of Ireland's IR tribunal to speak in Melbourne, ahead of AIRC international conference.
The AFPC today called for submissions on its reviews of Australian Pay and Classification Scales by December 14 and on junior and training wages by February 29 next year, issuing two issues papers on the process.
In a important ruling, a court has ordered a major finance company to pay out a former employee's annual leave based on his full package of more than $300,000 a year, rather than his base pay of $50,000 a year, after finding his entitlements under the NSW holiday legislation were preserved as a NAPSA.
The NSW Industrial Court has ruled a non-profit organisation is not a trading or financial corporation, in a crucial ruling on the reach of Work Choices.
Employees at the ACT Chief Minister's Department are the first of 10,000 Territory public servants to receive the benefits of a whole-of-government template agreement that delivers some key new work/life entitlements - including up to 12 weeks of purchased leave - and commits parties to consulting on further provisions, such as grandparental leave.
The NSW IRC can hear cases brought under the State IR Act's clauses that protect employees from victimisation if they make a safety complaint, because they are not excluded by s16 of the Workplace Relations Act, the NSW Industrial Court has found.
The Government should fund a national worker advocacy service to help employees bargain agreements and settle workplace disputes, including dismissals, according to University of NSW associate professor Joellen Riley.
The Business Coalition for Workplace Reform has confirmed one of its pro-Work Choices television advertisements is no longer on air after media reports alleging two actors portraying union thugs in the commercial were criminals.
