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AFPC should consider gender equity: WiSER

The Fair Pay Commission is being asked to consider the gender equity impact of its pay determination this year after concerns that women will be particularly disadvantaged by increasingly decentralised wage-fixing.

News in brief, April 10, 2007

Half of workers missing out on annual pay rise or not keeping up with inflation: Survey; CFMEU's McDonald back in court on May 1 over trespass charges; Highfield moving on from Virgin Blue; New appointments from employer ranks to PC; AIER seeking feedback on Charter of Employment Rights; and IR cases lift public awareness of High Court's work, says Kirby.

BHPB asks AFPC to ensure minimum wage rise does not apply to iron ore award

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has asked the Fair Pay Commission to explicitly exclude its WA iron ore award from its next minimum wages determination, in a submission highlighting confusion over the application of pay and classifications scales to former paid rates enterprise awards.





Federal Court suspends NSW IRC's Tristar inquiry

In the latest twist in the Tristar redundancy battle, the company yesterday won Federal Court orders restraining the NSW IRC from continuing its inquiry into the availability of work at its Marrickville plant.


IR system should be built on employment rights: Munro

At a time when the federal ALP is grappling with its alternative to Work Choices, the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) has developed a draft 10-point charter of employment rights which one of its members, former AIRC senior deputy president Paul Munro, has described as the foundation for "insurgent" IR policy.