A NSW parliamentary inquiry into Work Choices has called on the State Government to follow Victoria's example of creating a workplace rights advocate and to consider boosting state resources for dealing with unfair dismissal claims.
New Queensland CFMEU construction division secretary; Women's Work Choices roundtables; NSW teachers want 10% super; and date for ATO right of entry appeal.
Fair Pay Commissioner Ian Harper has downplayed the employment and inflationary impacts of his Commission's unexpectedly large increase in minimum wages last month, saying it cut nearly all affected pay rates in real terms and he was looking for jobs growth as a result.
A bargaining dispute at a major engineering workshop in the La Trobe Valley - in which the company has notified an indefinite lockout, the union an indefinite strike, and the AIRC has refused the first application for a Work Choices "cooling off" period - has entered its eleventh week.
ABC staff members of the CPSU and MEAA have voted by a 72% majority to accept the public broadcaster's improved 12% pay offer in a proposed new collective agreement.
Pay increases in private sector Work Choices collective agreements have plummeted to 3.2% a year in the September quarter, the lowest rise in four years and well below the 3.9% inflation rate, according to DEWR data released today.
The AWA offered to employees of failed carpet manufacturer Feltex by a prospective new employer erodes their conditions under their current Pre-Work Choices enterprise agreement and isn't an acceptable alternative, the AIRC has ruled.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has intervened to support an employer in an operational reasons dismissal appeal which was still before a full bench of the AIRC late this afternoon.
Older Australian men are reversing a 25-year trend of declining labour force participation, with their involvement rate increasing over the last five years, according to a Treasury paper.
