The NSW Teachers Federation says a "breakthrough" in-principle deal will make the State's beginning and top-scale teachers the nation's best paid, after they stared down a Minns Government proposal to lock-in three annual 2.5% pay rises off the back of a first-year lift of up to 12%.
Real non-farm unit labour costs have grown by 4.9% seasonally adjusted in the past year, after a 3.3% rise in the latest quarter, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
Chevron Australia has applied to the FWC for an intractable bargaining declaration at its Wheatstone gas platform ahead of escalating protected industrial action, which includes a newly-notified two-week stoppage starting from September 14.
The FWC has offered a worker a week to consider his possible reinstatement, finding that his employer unfairly dismissed him for a low-speed wheelie-bin collision.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has defended an estimated $9 billion in higher pay over the next decade as a result of the "Closing the Loopholes" legislation, arguing it amounts to a fractional increase in the national wages bill that will make a "life-changing" difference to workers who benefit.
A leading labour law academic says the drafting of the Albanese Government's latest swathe of IR changes is "complex" but the reformed approach to defining an employee is "really significant" and new labour hire provisions are likely to prevent employers from evading agreements via outsourcing.
RAFFWU has won overwhelming support from members at Woolworths for industrial action, as it awaits results of a protected action ballot at Coles, which it claims is excluding it from its "condition cutting soiree" meetings with rival unions and refusing to budge on its "poverty wages".
A FWC member has issued the "strongest recommendation" for AMWU members at an Ampol refinery to cease industrial action and vote up a new deal, after expressing her view that she lacked the power to convene a second post-PABO compulsory conciliation conference.
Qantas Group chief executive Alan Joyce has brought forward his retirement to help the company "accelerate its renewal" after a 15-year reign that featured a hard line on IR, including the dramatic 2011 lockout and grounding, the outsourcing of ground handling at the height of the pandemic and the establishment of cost-cutting internal labour hire arrangements when he led Jetstar.
A worker sacked for sleeping on the job will have another shot at getting his job back after a full bench found a senior member failed to put him on notice that he considered reinstatement inappropriate and reached an "unsound" conclusion that the employer had a valid reason.
