The ACTU has today invited the Howard Government’s ministers to spend a day in the shoes of its new workplace ambassadors, a group of award-dependent workers on wages of less than $60,000 a year who the peak body believes will bear the brunt of the second wave of IR change to be pushed through the Senate after July.
With all results now declared in the AWU's WA election, newly returned secretary, Tim Daly, says he is confident the branch can operate as a united team despite the assistant secretary's position going to the challengers.
No post-Budget national wage case hearing tomorrow; Qantas sacks Sydney baggage handler after cocaine smuggling investigation; and Workers become isolated as work moves outside the office.
A female salesperson was sexually harassed when she overheard a butcher telling a male workmate he'd rather be in a spa with a bourbon in one hand and a c*** in the other, a tribunal has found.
The Queensland IRC has ordered an employee sacked for alleged misappropriation to pay $110,000 in costs, including indemnity costs, after finding she forced her former employer to incur "a huge amount" of costs but never intended to proceed with her unfair dismissal trial.
Labour shortages might be starting to drive up wages, with today's ABS data showing a trend quarterly increase in pay rates excluding bonuses of 1.1% for the March quarter and 3.9% annually - the highest year-on-year growth since the Bureau first released the statistics in 1998.
AIRC mediation trial commences; Living wage parties lodge post-Budget submissions, but no hearing expected; Howard Government launches employee share ownership kit; AWU wants collective deal for Newcastle steelworkers; and AIRC stays ABC case.
The Howard Government should exempt small businesses from the looming super choice regime, rather than unfair dismissal laws, Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley told a small business summit in Sydney today.
Will Tracey, the former ACTU organiser for the Pilbara, has failed in his bid to become the AWU's WA branch secretary, going down to incumbent, Tim Daly, in a close result.
Working parents feel rushed and a substantial number would like to do less hours, but on the whole they believe work has a positive impact on them and, to a lesser degree, on their children, a new major study has shown.
