Gender equity in Australia - including in the workplace - has been on the decline over the last decade, despite earlier gains that made the country a world leader in women's rights, according to a new academic study.
Unions reject Qantas sale undertakings; OWS wins $12,000 penalty for $2,162 in unpaid wages; and Health has significant impact on men’s wages: Melbourne Institute; and Hockey joins Expenditure Review Committee.
In another sign of a tight labour market, a new job website is offering referral payments of up to $10,000 to members of the public who help find employees to fill advertised vacancies.
The Victorian Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate is investigating the proposed purchase by John Holland Engineering of Ansett's Tullamarine maintenance facility and the company's AWA offer to employees - a move unions fear also has implications for Qantas.
After almost 15 months of negotiations between Virgin Blue and the flight attendants' union, some 1300 cabin crew will begin voting later this month on a new five-year agreement that provides a 3% pay rise plus a 2% bonus each year, boosts part-time employment, and introduces new rosters in league with a jointly-developed fatigue management system.
Unions will not compromise on their opposition to exemptions for small businesses from unfair dismissal laws in the ALP’s forthcoming IR policy, ACTU president Sharan Burrow said today.
The NSW IRC has addressed a disparity that has been a source of discontent among the State’s nurses, awarding those who did their post-graduate training through a hospital – primarily older nurses – an equivalent allowance to their tertiary-trained colleagues, while at the same time increasing all existing post-graduate allowances.
As a result of Work Choices taking effect, the WA IRC no longer has the power to hear contractual benefits claims involving employees of constitutional corporations, the Commission has found.
Adecco, Australia's third largest provider of temporary labour, will boost the training it provides to its temporary workers and treat them more like ongoing employees, according to its global chief executive, Dieter Scheiff.
The ACTU’s new television commercial that began airing tonight focuses on the reductions to protected conditions in AWAs revealed by Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain last May.
