A full bench Federal Court majority has found that variations to AWAs are unenforceable unless approved by the Employment Advocate, ruling that a Coastwatch pilot who broke her training bond does not have to repay her former employer $16,336.86.
If this week's ABS figures showing union membership in mining plummeting by almost 30% don't ring true, there's a simple explanation - they may not be.
The Government isn't considering stripping back awards to any less than 16 allowable matters, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews told the Sydney Institute last night.
The NSW IRC has this afternoon directed Newcrest Mining to attend a conciliation conference over a final warning issued to an AWA employee, after the State's appeal court earlier in the day rejected the company's bid to restrain the Commission.
An AIRC full bench has on appeal overturned a decision to reject an unfair dismissal case because the employee's legal representative twice failed to fully comply with the Commission's directions.
The DEWR is reserving the right to again offer its s170LK agreement to employees, despite commencing genuine bargaining for a s170LJ union-employer agreement with the CPSU.
PM says IR changes won't cut real wages; "Caring" employer fends off computer programmer's bias claim; and Foreign exchange expert makes unfair contract claims over sales commissions.
Labour economist Bob Gregory has highlighted the political perils of substantially changing Australia's minimum wage architecture, saying it would affect not only workers on low wages, but also hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients.
Victorian unions will be the first off the mark in mounting a coordinated campaign against the Federal Government's planned IR changes, with about 2,000 workers expected to tomorrow endorse an action plan.
The number of union members in Australia has again fallen and the proportion of employees who are in unions has also hit a new low, with private sector density down to 17.4%.
