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.
The Australian Customs Service struck the right balance between its operational needs and an employee's family needs when it offered him a compromise that would have avoided the need to move more than 1500km away from his children and estranged wife, the AIRC has found in an unfair dismissal ruling.
Deputy Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain is to replace Jonathan Hamberger as Employment Advocate, after his appointment to the AIRC last Friday, while AWAs have reached the half million mark seven years after they first became available.
