Private and industry super funds will maintain their involvement in the Victorian common rule awards test case, despite the heat being taken out of the super argument by the passage through the Senate of the Federal Government's choice of super fund legislation.
In an important ruling for Victorian employers and employees, a court has ruled that a long-serving regular casual employee of Melbourne Cricket Club is entitled to long service leave.
Labor says Andrews' paper "a litany of Liberal lies; PM and Andrews attack Labor in the wake of critical Access Economics Report; SA IRC flows on $19 living wage increase; SMH industrial reporter takes redundancy while Fairfax says voluntary redundancy program reaches target; and further 12 month term for Acting Disability Discrimination Commissioner.
Casual employees have won the right to unpaid time off for caring needs, births and bereavements, in what the ACTU says is the first formal leave provision for casuals.
The ALP's workplace relations platform threatens the productivity growth achieved in Australia over the past decade, a 70-page report by Access Economics - commissioned by the BCA - has found.
The ASU is seeking a 12% pay rise over two years, a 2% rise in employer super contributions and an increase in paid maternity leave from six to 14 weeks in a claim it has served on Qantas.
After months of negotiations, an in-principle agreement reached between the CFMEU (mining & energy division) and the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance for the company's eight central Queensland coal sites has been voted down by the rank and file.
The NSW Teachers Federation is preparing for a long battle with the State Government's over its proposed changes to public school employment - the sting-in-the-tail in its announcement yesterday that it was prepared to match Catholic school senior pay rates.
