In a significant watering-down of the interpretation many practitioners gave to December's landmark casuals decision, a full bench of the IRC has made it clear that employers can refuse employees' bids to convert to permanent after six months on the job if they have a good reason for doing so.
A small group of employees who refused to sign Western Australian Workplace Agreements has won its battle with mineral sands giant Iluka for a significant pay rise plus access to superannuation benefits equal to what their colleagues on statutory individual contracts receive.
The first enterprise agreement for the NRMA Insurance Group Limited-RACV joint venture IMA has largely shifted the 1,700 employees onto NRMA pay and conditions.
Average weekly ordinary time earnings increased 1.1% in the November quarter last year and 5.3% over the year to November, according to preliminary trend figures released today by the ABS.
Call centres could threaten the industry’s flexible work practices by blindly signing up to the ACTU’s minimum standards code, according to a leading employer law firm.
Unions say the Court Government's plan to register employers who wish to make agreements under the WA's statutory individual contracts stream if it is re-elected tomorrow is an admission that the individual deals are exploiting workers.
The NUW was this morning pessimistic about the likelihood of a quick resolution to the $36 million, 119-day standoff at Qenos' petrochemicals production facility in Altona, Victoria, despite the company's assessment that the warring parties were edging closer to an agreement.
A meat industry rendering plant that was last year the subject of a torrid bargaining battle with the AMIEU is now implementing a new three-year collective deal that links pay to performance and gives it more control over aspects of its operation.
A full bench of the IRC has tightened the rules covering paid meal breaks in the food preserving industry in a bid to clear up ambiguity and uncertainty.
Financial services company Zurich has cushioned the introduction of performance pay in its new two-year enterprise agreement by guaranteeing most employees will get an increase of 4% a year, while employees can also gain through increases in market rates of pay.
