The world's biggest recruitment and HR services provider has recognised that the trend to flatter management structures might have led to a substantial "talent gap" between management levels.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet has signalled today that the union peak body plans to mount a campaign to boost the income of the low-paid by providing tax credits or new social security assistance.
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More than 6,000 workers at the State Rail Authority and Rail Infrastructure Corporation will receive an 8% pay rise over two years after employers and seven unions concluded their bargaining negotiations for two new federal agreements.
Holden Ltd is preparing to pursue damages against the AMWU and CEPU, after the IRC today acceded to the four carmakers' application for a s166A certificate against the AMWU and CEPU over the dispute at BHP Steel's Western Port site that threatens to halt car production.
An employer who dismissed a warehouse packer because of an alleged failure to meet her daily quota has lost its application for a stay of the NSW Commission's order to reinstate the worker.
The SDA and department store Daimaru have struck a redundancy agreement, ahead of the company's closure of its Melbourne store, that provides more than 800 employees with two weeks pay per year of service, uncapped.
The warring camps in the CFMEU's construction and general division have settled their differences, but are declining to reveal the terms of the deal until the ink is on the paper.