There were no fireworks yesterday when one of the AIRC's new senior deputy presidents, former Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger, was formally welcomed to the institution in a ceremonial sitting.
Australia Post announces unilateral pay rise in bid to break bargaining deadlock; HSBC's Edward backtracks and says Labor committed to primacy of bargaining; RBA says labour demand/wage growth nexus might have been broken; and which of the two Coalition and two Labor governments over the past 32 years achieved the best labour productivity growth? New research comes up with a surprising answer.
A hotel manager was guilty of sexual harassment when he made comments to a co-worker and a third party that the worker liked boys, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found.
The IR Club "philosophy" still prevails in the AIRC and 12 of the first 16 Howard Government appointees to the Commission were Club members, Des Moore, of the Institute for Private Enterprise, told the HR Nicholls conference in Melbourne yesterday.
Former AIRC Senior Deputy President Keith Hancock has questioned whether the end of centralised wage fixing was responsible for the productivity growth of the 1990s.
Acting Employment Advocate Peter McIlwaine is seeking in-house legal advice about evidence an employee gave in a recent court case that he had been working under an AWA that he had never signed nor sighted but had been registered by the OEA.
The AMMA has rejected the ALP's argument that common law contracts can replace AWAs, saying they will not be an adequate alternative without enabling legislation.
Queensland's power unions have wrapped up the latest bargaining round with the bulk of the State's generators, while negotiations are underway with the trouble-plagued distribution companies.
The ALP has promised to boost by $40 million the federal Wageline service, with Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Craig Emerson claiming it has been run down under the Howard Government.
