Committee calls for new labour market adjustment programs, as car components sector battered; WA to set up Victorian-style employment rights advocate; Can't beat that rap: KFC franchisee fined for under-age employment; Transcript available for operational reasons test case; Paper examines implications of Work Choices; Holy Grail prosecutions to be heard next year; and FSU running shareholder campaign against offshoring.
Newly-elected federal ALP leader Kevin Rudd today confirmed that he supported his party's existing IR policy when he fronted his first media conference after this morning's caucus vote.
Disputed payment dates, a lack of enforceable wage scales and confusion about the difference between some allowances and pay rates were raised as key issues before an AIRC full bench hearing today to flow on the Fair Pay Commission's minimum wage rise.
Court allows lay advocate to represent one of "Perth 107"; Minimum pay rise payable from December 1 - updated pay scales now available; AFPC seeking submissions for 2007 minimum wage decision; Safety net case for transitional employees begins tomorrow; Workers offline: Goodbye to groundbreaking union internet publication; Pilots union re-joins ACTU; and New website for ACTU.
It is possible that the Office of the Employee Advocate deliberately restricted leave to all of its employees on the ACTU's day of action against Work Choices so it could stop CPSU members from attending the protests, a Federal Court full bench has found.
The Senate has this afternoon passed both the Federal Government's amended independent contractors legislation and its amendments to Work Choices - meaning they can now be put to the Lower House before Parliament rises at the end of next week for the Christmas break.
The OWS has begun investigating complaints by two under-18 retail workers that they were put under pressure to sign AWAs that had no provision for parental consent and were then paid under the discounted rates of the individual deals, despite refusing to sign.
The work-and-spend cycle is one explanation why employees work long hours - though not all those who fall into the category see themselves as trapped there, a new study shows.
The OWS is investigating an AWA offer to a former farmhand on a cotton farm near the NSW/Queensland border owned by potential National Party candidate and former NFF president Peter Corish.
