Building Taskforce considering appeal over FOA case costs decision; Greens likely to hold balance of power in WA Upper House; and Federal Parliament launches inquiry into work and family balance; Jetstar workers begin voting on deal tomorrow; and AIRC rules unpaid leave doesn’t count as service for redundancy purposes.
The CFMEU will investigate a legal challenge to the Howard Government's plan to make its Cole construction industry legislation retrospective, possibly to as far back as last year, while the PM and Treasurer have canvassed changes to setting the minimum wage.
If a Barnett Government takes power after tomorrow's WA election, it will introduce a new individual contracts stream registered by a new body independent of the State IRC, it confirmed this week with the re-release of the labour relations policy it launched last year.
The Federal Government has confirmed that it will seek to take over the States' IR functions, and that the AIRC's role in setting minimum wages is under review.
Workforce participation could be improved as the labour market tightens by reducing the cost to workers of meeting their caring responsibilities, but the Howard Government’s promised childcare debate won’t go far enough, according to a new report.
On January 17, the phones stopped ringing at the futures desk of a Sydney broker after staff walked out en masse. Now their former employer has launched a Federal Court action against the company they left to join.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow has described the union leadership's first meeting with Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews on his post July 1 reform agenda as "constructive", but said she was left with "no less fear" that the Government would fail to respect core labour standards when drafting its legislation.
NSW’s Rail Infrastructure Corporation indirectly racially discriminated against a labour hire employee of Sri Lankan heritage because of his poor written English, a tribunal has found, while the VCAT has refused a media request to produce documents relating to a workplace discrimination claim lodged by the woman who is struggling for her life after being found in a car boot last week.
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has been ordered to reinstate a female employee and reimburse her lost maternity pay and wages after she was found to have been unfairly selected for redundancy.
