Just five months after Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain told a Senate committee that every one of a sample of 250 Work Choices AWAs had removed at least one protected award condition, he has today revealed he is no longer conducting that sampling.
The TCFU is concerned that an application to remove redundancy provisions from a mid-term enterprise agreement by a carpet company in receivership signals a push to exploit gaps in the Work Choices 12-month transmission of business rule.
OWS recovers $650,000 from Hunan Industrial; Bench overturns pornography dismissal reinstatement; AFPC nail in coffin for anti Work Choices campaign, says PM; Tim McDonald joins Joe Hockey's office; Cook leaves Clayton Utz for Minters; PSA moves with the times; and Debate to launch AIER in NSW.
Research commissioned by the Fair Pay Commission shows that just 20% of companies, concentrated in five industry sectors, account for virtually all low-paid employment.
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.
