After more than a decade of sub-4% growth in pay, Treasury has projected in its Intergenerational Report, released today, that it will return to that level in 2028 as productivity resumes its long-term growth path of 1.5%.
Andrew McKellar, currently head of the Australian Trucking Association after gaining a wide range of private and public sector experience here and overseas, is set to become the chief executive of the ACCI.
The Federal Court has today imposed $100,000 in fines and costs on the CFMMEU and a delegate who stopped work on a construction site due to safety concerns, but has criticised the ABCC for "over-egging" its case and of having "difficulty turning", like "a battleship in full steam" when it learned that the facts had changed.
The FWC has thrown out a bid by the AMWU to enter the BHP OS training facility near Mackay to hold discussions with about 150 maintenance trainees, finding the union's coverage rule for fitters and engineering trades doesn't extend to the "caterpillar" trainees until they become maintenance associate "butterflies".
Bargained wage rises in the private sector show little sign of pushing towards the "materially higher" benchmark set by the RBA, growing at 2.6% for the second quarter in a row, while public sector bargaining collapsed.
The Commonwealth Bank must give an undertaking to deliver unconditional pay rises for all workers covered by a new agreement to secure the FWC's approval, after its HR chief inaccurately stated while selling the deal they would be "guaranteed".
The High Court has this morning refused the ABCC special leave to challenge a full Federal Court's reversal of penalties imposed on two CFMMEU officials for leading a walk-out from a building site that had no separate toilet for a female worker, while it also denied special leave for a case about class action common fund orders.
An FWC full bench, in overturning a finding that the engineers, scientists and IT professionals award does not apply to an LNG consultant, has suggested reviewing its coverage provisions after "excessive litigation" to establish whether it covers unfair dismissal applicants.
The ACTU has labelled the Morrison Government's legislation arising from the Respect@Work report a "missed opportunity" to deal with sexual harassment and violence at work.
