Victoria will match the NSW Government's $3000 bonus payments to health workers as it seeks to attract and retain workers during the winter flu season.
IR Minister Tony Burke has told public servants who will form a part of the new Department of Employment and Workplace Relations that he that he wants unfiltered, fearless advice, particularly if the government appears to be heading in the wrong direction.
The ACTU has told the FWC that while the new Labor Government's submission has "repeatedly" referred to increases for the low-paid, the minimum wage panel should resist any temptation to depart from its recent practice of adjusting the NMW and award rates by a "uniform percentage amount".
A 20% pay cut imposed on a general manager while his employer shut its doors due to COVID-19 restrictions breached his contract and did not qualify as a JobKeeper-enabling direction, WA's IRC has held.
The campaign by public sector unions to break state-based pay caps is about to spread to Queensland, with bargaining for teachers and nurses picking up pace ahead of the Palaszczuk Government's budget on June 21.
The leader of the ANMF's West Australian branch, Mark Olson, is stepping down after 24 years in the job and an often mercurial approach, which included taking the view that unions should not "shy away" from the Abbott Government's Heydon royal commission into trade unions.
An ASX-listed mining company that is pursuing a former contracts manager for allegedly misusing confidential information and earning secret profits is seeking to ban access to the details of an explosive Federal Court challenge to his sacking.
A finance analyst's decision to "go nuclear" after her employer's harsh denial of a chance to interview for new roles in a corporate restructure ultimately justified her redundancy, the FWC has found.
The RBA in its announcement on interest rates today is maintaining its position that its business liaison program "continues to point to a lift in wages growth from the low rates of recent years as firms compete for staff in a tight labour market".
