ACCI has called for the FWC to award a 3.5% rise in this year's minimum wage review, arguing this would amount to 4% when the legislated 0.5% increase in the superannuation guarantee is taken into account.
The Albanese Government will urge the FWC's minimum wage panel to award an inflation-matching increase to the lowest-paid workers, but will stop short of pushing for an across-the-board increase for workers on higher award classifications.
The Albanese Government has today announced the appointment of five new members from union or union-friendly backgrounds, along with the promotion of Deputy President Ingrid Asbury - a former AiG executive - to the vice president position left vacant with the ascension of Adam Hatcher to president.
Employsure has rejected a sales worker's claims that it subjected him to discrimination, bullying and coercion after he applied for parental leave and challenged a claimed unilateral downgrading of employees' conditions, and says it does not know how a record he kept of his treatment came to be destroyed.
The Australian Electoral Commission is prosecuting the CFMMEU over posters that criticised sitting Federal Labor MP and former ACTU president Ged Kearney in the lead-up to last year's Federal election.
Victoria's Andrews Labor Government is facing increasing pressure from unions over a push to cut thousands of jobs and its acceptance of the need to lift its 1.5% public sector wage cap in the State Budget on May 23.
Stevedoring giant Qube has failed to overturn a ruling that it should have slashed the minimum number of hours salaried dockworkers needed to work in a year after withholding their pay over 11 weeks of protected industrial action.
The Albanese Government's public sector bargaining policy says the APSC will work to boost flexibility and mobility via a set of common conditions and by tackling disparity between agencies, but flags it will likely take multiple rounds to fix pay fragmentation.
