The SA IRC has thwarted the State Government's bid to end via arbitration the long-running public sector bargaining dispute, refusing its application for a new award in favour of further talks and then a ballot.
Each employee costs an average of $42,600 a year to employers, though private sector employees are cheaper, at $40,100, according to ABS data released today.
The day after the NSW IRC awarded public school and TAFE teachers a 12% pay rise over two years, a full bench of the Commission has granted the same increase to the State's Catholic school teachers - but with additional one-off rises for teachers in promotional positions.
The Federal Court has found a company manager guilty of contempt after he reneged on a promise to give additional work to a truck driver after he launched a damages claim against the company.
Union members are much more likely to have fixed start and finish times, RDOs and perform shift work, while almost a million employees are regularly working unpaid overtime - just short of the number paid for overtime, according to a new ABS survey.
An AIRC member has today found that notices of intended industrial action can be properly served by fax, after another member decided last month that they must be served personally or by registered post.
NSW public school and TAFE teachers have won a 12% pay rise over two years, after a NSW IRC full bench this afternoon handed down a 235-page decision on their special case pay claim and work value case.
Victorian unions will argue against the bid by the private superannuation industry to intervene in the Victorian common rule test case, while industry funds will seek to intervene to oppose the private super interests, when the AIRC begins hearings in August.
A super fund discriminated against a worker who was retired because of a psychiatric condition when it paid his $310,000 retirement benefit to a trustee rather than directly to him, a tribunal has found.
