Queensland's Palaszczuk Labor Government has offered public sector nurses and midwives a pace-setting 11% in pay rises over three years – frontloaded with 4% increases this year and next – plus a "cost of living top-up payment" of up to 3% a year.
The FWC has this week approved a new agreement for the Australia Council of Social Service that lifts pay by the 4.6% rise in award minimum rates, provides new paid cultural and First Nations leave and enables employees to take a substitute public holiday for the January 26 "Invasion Day".
The FWC has this afternoon rejected Sydney Trains' bid for interim s424 orders to suspend or terminate industrial action on the city's suburban and interurban train network.
The FWC's expert panel has refused a union application for adult apprentices and adults on national training wage rates to receive the $40 a week increase awarded to the lowest-paid in the minimum pay review, but will consider the issue in next year's case, while the central bank in its decision to lift interest rates this afternoon has maintained its view that a tighter labour market will "lift" wages.
The FWC will this morning hear the NSW Government's s424 application to suspend or terminate industrial action at Sydney Trains because it is endangering the population's life, personal safety, health or welfare.
The TWU is set to use its Virgin pilots union amalgamation as a springboard to create a new dedicated division to recruit flight crew across the aviation sector, including Qantas.
In a report warning of the "Uber-isation" of care, think tank Per Capita and a company using employees to provide disability services via an online platform are calling for a review of the implications of digital contracting in the sector.
A proposed new agreement for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition provides substantial upfront pay rises and entitlements to five days paid climate disaster leave, 30 days paid gender affirmation leave and 12% super contributions, while it replaces workplace breastfeeding provisions with "chestfeeding" rights.
A UK national living wage review has found that while the NLW's introduction has not caused job losses, the expected productivity gains have failed to materialise.
