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The ACT branch of the AEU is tonight likely to suspend its latest round of industrial action - endorsed on the weekend - after the Territory Government this morning agreed to private arbitration of the parties' long-running bargaining dispute.

OWS recovers $93,000 from Aprint, prosecution to come; Discussions this week on flowing-on AFPC ruling to allowances; Safety net case for employees of unincorporated employers can now proceed; Government hypocritical on AFPC ruling, says Labor; NATSEM analysis shows "folly" of AFPC ruling, says ACCI; and Pocock’s new book looks at impact of work on children.

A company that refused to pay employees for a week's work in which they imposed overtime bans has agreed to a 4% union wage deal, but without paying the disputed wages accrued during the protected industrial action.

An AIRC full bench has acceded to a bid by Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews to overturn variations to pre-reform awards that went beyond jurisdictional limits under Work Choices by updating wage rates.

Qualified support from teaching unions for Beazley standards-based pay proposal; Qantas maintenance workers vote up three-year deal; CFMEU television commercial misleading, says ABCC, but CFMEU demurs; Little change in workers' mobility, says ABS; and Concerts to encourage youth to enrol to vote, send message to Canberra on IR.

The ALP federally has the support of the state Labor premiers for both its national approach to IR regulation and its key IR policy planks - including the abolition of AWAs - according to Shadow IR Minister Stephen Smith.

The union movement's support for a national IR system based on the corporations power plus its new collective bargaining position are at the heart of its IR legislation policy - unanimously endorsed by ACTU Congress in Melbourne yesterday. But the 37-page document - which unions will lobby the ALP to adopt - also deals in detail with a raft of other key matters, including the AIRC's role, minimum standards, unfair dismissal, freedom of association, independent contractors, trade practices law, employee entitlement protection, and which government bodies should go and which should stay.

In its first minimum pay determination today, the Fair Pay Commission has delivered a substantial pay rise approaching 4% a year to workers on the federal minimum wage.

The Federal Government and unions today welcomed the Fair Pay Commission's first minimum wage determination but business leaders attacked the decision as a $2 billion cost on employers without any required increases in productivity.

In its first minimum wage determination, the Fair Pay Commission has awarded pay increases of between $22.04 and $27.36 a week to more than a million workers covered by award pay scales, to take effect from December 1.