Working parents would receive 10 hours a week of free care for each child aged three to four, childcare trainees would receive bonuses for completing their training and a plan would be developed to boost wages for childcare workers, under a Latham Labor Government.
The Opposition has accused the Coalition of planning to seize the States' IR systems and get more workers onto AWAs, following Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' IR policy launch this morning.
A re-elected Coalition Government would tighten union right of entry laws; establish a mediation service for small business as an informal alternative to the AIRC; and boost non-union agreement-making; the Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, announced today.
The National Union of Workers has won AIRC approval to amend its rules to maintain its coverage of commercial travellers now that they do much of their work via the phone and the internet.
A storeworker with a back injury has lost his unlawful dismissal case after the Federal Court ruled the injury meant he was no longer able to meet the inherent requirements of the position.
A fourth-term Howard Government would introduce a standalone Independent Contractors Act to prevent independent contractors from being regulated by the federal IR system, PM John Howard announced yesterday.
It is only a matter of time before a court of record accepts the concept of joint employment in a labour hire situation, while the fledgling concept could in future be used more widely to secure employee entitlements during strategic insolvencies, the conference heard today.
Work has changed in such significant and relevant ways that it is now strongly arguable that childcare and travel to and from work should be tax deductible, a Sydney conference has heard.