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Lean retail deals dampen private sector wage growth

Wage increases in private sector enterprise agreements moderated significantly in the June quarter, dropping to 3.2% a year per employee from 3.6% in March, largely because of big retail agreements that paid relatively small increases, according to the DEWR.

New rules against genes at work

Employers' rights to use genetic information will be severely restricted if the Government adopts new proposals by the Law Reform Commission and the Australian Health Ethics Committee.

ACTU's Mansfield to join IRC

The Howard Government is set to appoint ACTU assistant secretary Bill Mansfield to the IRC.

Air Services seeks order to stymie strike

The IRC will tomorrow afternoon hear Air Services Australia's bid for a s127 order to halt Friday's planned strike action by air traffic controllers.

Opposition bill streamlines dismissal cases

Opposition Leader Simon Crean has introduced a private members bill that streamlines processing and determination of unfair dismissal claims.

Unions consider revised Q-health offer

Queensland health unions are meeting today to consider putting the government's latest bargaining proposal to the vote despite saying the revised offer, with restructured pay instalments, is a lot of "smoke and mirrors".

DEWR workers go out

DEWR workers have walked off the job for 30 minutes today in a symbolic action over stalled bargaining negotiations.

Maternity pay boost has differential impact

Brewer Lion Nathan believes its doubling of paid parental leave will help to attract blue-collar employees and retain white-collar employees.

IR advisor leaves Democrats

The beleaguered Democrats have lost an IR and work advisor who had been heralded as broadening the party's IR agenda to embrace work and life issues and greater protection of workers at the margins.

Boost in severance for public sector workers

The CPSU has won an application to boost severance pay entitlements in two public service awards by as much as 40 weeks, after an IRC full bench found an anomaly between federal public sector awards.

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