In another instalment in the factional battle that has engulfed the HSUA Victoria No. 1 branch, the newly-elected secretary will not be able to take office until after September.
Victorian employees are over-represented among the low-paid compared with their NSW counterparts and the national average, according to a new report prepared for the Victorian IR Taskforce.
A union has again successfully used the anti-suit injunction tactic against Yallourn Energy, with the CFMEU (mining & energy division) convincing the Federal Court that it had a strong case for interlocutory relief restraining the company from taking tort action against it.
In a rare move, three of Australia's leading employer organisations yesterday issued a joint statement criticising the move towards greater IR regulation by unions and the ALP.
Nearly a decade after the introduction of formalised enterprise bargaining, more than two out of five employees in businesses with at least five workers have their pay set by registered agreements, while just one in five employees relies solely on award pay rates, according to new survey findings.
GST clauses in enterprise agreements are still rare, but "front-loading" of wage rises is increasingly popular, perhaps because of fears of a GST-related inflation spike, according to a new analysis of bargaining wage movements.
The IRC has certified a non-union deal covering employees at US-based second-hand clothing chain store Savers, despite initially finding it failed the no disadvantage test.
South Australian Workplace Relations Minister Robert Lawson has rebutted a Workplace Express report that employers and unions were concerned the Government had gone against convention by refusing to follow the recommendations of a tripartite panel for two appointments to the State IRC.
