The Office of the Employment Advocate is carrying out a review of its operations, focusing on what extra activities or improvements to existing services employers and employees want.
In an important decision on workplace pranks, the NSW IRC has found in favour of two long-serving fitters who were dismissed after an incident involving a young trades assistant.
Boards of public companies will be closely watching today's Commonwealth Bank AGM, when the FSU's community-based campaign against the bank's IR, executive remuneration and social policies comes to a head.
Unions will seek compensation for the effect of the GST on inflation, despite the first post tax-change CPI figures showing an increase in inflation of 6.1% in the past year and 3.7% in the September quarter - well below the forecast.
Victorian Premier Steve Bracks has released a letter from law firm Clayton Utz saying the Government's Fair Employment Bill "should have no unreasonable impact" on employers who treat their employees fairly.
A wage surge in public sector enterprise agreements has pushed average bargaining pay increases to 4% per employee for the first time since 1998, according to a preliminary analysis by HSBC.
A unitary IR system built on the corporations power could be simpler than the current arrangements, cover 85% of employees and bring 800,000 award-free employees under the federal umbrella, according to two new discussion papers released by Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith.
The Federal Court has cleared the way for a WA branch of the ASU to go ahead with its disamalgamation bid, which it began after claiming its members were being poached.
