Some 560,000 Schedule 1A workers in Victoria will receive the 2001 federal safety net adjustment four weeks earlier than expected, following an IRC ruling this morning.
A landmark paid maternity leave deal at Australian Catholic University provides primary carers with 70% of earnings for 12 months from the birth of a baby.
Employee entitlements breakthroughs by metals unions in the South Australian auto components sector are starting to put pressure on other employers, with the AMWU this morning delivering an ultimatum to embattled Maintrain management.
Metals unions are close to an in-the-field breakthrough in their bid to protect employee entitlements in a trust fund, while talks by union and manufacturing employer peak groups failed today to agree on a national approach to the issue.
Report reveals few women reaching top; bargaining wages growing at 3.9%; ABC reins in IR reporting; Government to announce small business IR changes next week; and more.
Patrick's new enterprise agreement is under a cloud, after the MUA rank and file voted it down today in Melbourne and gave it conditional approval in Sydney and Brisbane.
Victorian nurses are expected to lift their work bans tomorrow after the Government agreed to talks, while the State's police have begun a campaign of bans in support of their bargaining claim.
Both sides in manufacturing have been engaged in a war of words over Manusafe's merits or otherwise. Now that they are going to meet next week, what is there to talk about? What is Manusafe? Where did it come from, and what are the competing claims?
