WA's gender pay equity inquiry has recommended employers conduct pay equity audits and that the State Government establish a pay equity unit to help close the State's 22.6% gender pay gap.
A deal between BHP Billiton and the CFMEU (mining & energy division) that settled a protracted bargaining dispute in the NSW Illawarra region has been certified by the AIRC, with another BHPB Illawarra coal workforce yesterday voting up its new agreement. The Commission also approved a BHPB Hunter Valley coal deal, and an agreement for a coal loading facility managed by Rio Tinto.
The Ford review of WA's IR legislation recommends introducing a s170LK-style non-union collective agreement stream, a regime of protected industrial action and tighter right of entry provisions.
Suncorp Metway's pleas for the Senate to amend the Howard Government's Electrolux bill have turned out to be unnecessary, after the AIRC today certified its non-union enterprise agreement.
Labor’s new Shadow IR Minister, Stephen Smith, has left the door open on the possibility that the Opposition will support the Howard Government’s bill exempting small business from redundancy payments.
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An AIRC full bench said this week that it would certify the first agreement for National Rugby League clubs and players, once several clauses are redrafted to ensure they pertain to the employment relationship and the deal is put to a new ballot.
Suncorp Metway will tell tomorrow's fast-tracked Senate inquiry into the Electrolux Bill that the legislation should be amended to validate agreements that had been negotiated but not certified at the time of the High Court's September 2 ruling on matters pertaining.
Optical services company OPSM Pty Ltd will have to defend an indirect discrimination claim from a former employee with a rheumatology condition and endometriosis, after a tribunal found she had an arguable case.