The OWS will not be prosecuting a company owned by the Opposition Leader's wife, Therese Rein, for under-paying its employees after finding that the breaches that occurred were not deliberate and were voluntarily rectified.
Up to 20,000 CBA employees will receive a 4% annual pay rise from next week after the bank again unilaterally decided on an increase from July 1 for workers covered by its' enterprise agreement with the FSU which expired in April 2004.
A Labor Government would bust the IR "club" with its new Fair Work Australia institution and deliver a simpler system while getting rid of the bloated IR bureaucracy created under Work Choices, Labor deputy leader Julia Gillard told the Melbourne Press Club today.
ALP will sack unionists for threats or use of violence: Rudd; Fairness test is guarantee of no tougher IR changes: Howard; and unfair termination fees up next week.
Employment laws should be changed to prevent discrimination in the workplace against same-sex couples and their families, including access to leave and paid benefits, according to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
The Iemma Government will have to pay Tristar's costs of $50,000 to $100,000 for its jurisdictional challenge to the NSW IRC inquiry into the company, following a Federal Court full bench ruling.
Tristar workers still exposed, says AMWU; OWS expands National Jet Systems case; A few "bad apples", in union movements, says Gillard; and Brown appointed Queensland's first Workplace Rights Ombudsman.
CSBP Ltd has succeeded in terminating a bargaining period to prevent a strike ballot by 150 LHMU process technicians at its Kwinana chemical plant in WA, after the AIRC found the union failed to genuinely seek agreement with the company.
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has introduced into Parliament his flagged changes to subclass 457 visas that impose sanctions and penalties on employers who don't comply with their obligations under the scheme.
An IR consultant who has lodged more than 20,000 AWAs with the OEA says the Howard Government's fairness test marks the death knell for serious labour market reform for small business, which will now find the individual contracts "too hard and expensive".
