Average wage increases in private sector agreements approved in the September quarter have reached 3% a year for the first time since 2016, according to Jobs Department data released today.
Labor promises to consult on IR policy; Council within jurisdiction for anti-bullying claim, says FWC; CFMMEU's Hanna gets suspended sentence for destroying union documents; Treasury overshoots again on wage growth forecast; and Lloyd returns to IPA.
An employer must pay compensation to a store supervisor after its HR manager sacked her within her probationary period and insisted that she was not legally obliged to say why, with the Federal Circuit Court finding it was because she made numerous complaints about her employment.
The Registered Organisations Commission has launched an investigation into whether Together Queensland unlawfully retaliated against its former assistant secretary for making a protected disclosure.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has pledged to abolish the Registered Organisations Commission if Labor wins the coming Federal election, while declaring that the current enterprise bargaining system is "not working".
The FWC is seeking submissions on some increases in the work value of pharmacists identified in its four-yearly award review, but Professionals Australia has slammed the tribunal's rejection of its signal bid to bump by more than a third the pay of those with accreditation.
An employer who sought to "retrofit" a requirement for workers to have a clean police record should have obtained external HR advice to avoid unfairly sacking a storeworker over his criminal past, the FWC has found.
A future Federal Labor government should not give contracts to "anti-union" law firms, according to an ALP conference resolution pushed by the CFMMEU's Victorian branch.
The CFMMEU says two pared-back production and maintenance BHP agreements awaiting approval in the FWC would create an "in-house, cut-price labour hire workforce" and a "template for the mining industry to get around Skene".
