The UFU's Victorian branch says the FWC should issue a groundbreaking intractable bargaining declaration to overcome stalled enterprise agreement negotiations with Fire Services Victoria, but it should not allow a post-declaration bargaining period to "undo and revisit" terms that have already been agreed.
Grattan Institute chief executive Danielle Wood is set to become the first female chair of the Productivity Commission, after Chris Barrett turned down the role.
An employer has failed to convince the FWC that it should reduce a payroll officer's redundancy payment from 10 weeks to nil because it obtained "other acceptable employment" for her.
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".
