New research has dispelled claims that a national paid maternity leave scheme would provide "middle class welfare", finding that low-paid women would benefit most from the scheme.
MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin has been elected unopposed for a new four-year term, but he is one of only a handful of MUA leaders not to face a contest in the upcoming poll, which opens in mid-April.
Up to 2,000 manufacturing employees working on the construction of a new aluminum smelter in Queensland will be covered by a project agreement that implements the 36-hour week and puts severance payments into NEST, both of which are firsts for the State.
After being returned for a third term on Saturday, the Carr Government looks likely to continue to be able to push amendments to its IR legislation through the Upper House, as a large crossbench has been retained that gives Labor significant flexibility.
A drug company has broken new ground by paying for up to six months childcare costs for workers returning from parental leave and allowing them to keep their company car for three months after taking leave.
The Victorian branch of the AMWU has began sending out bargaining notices to close to 1,000 companies and is in the process of drafting its Campaign 2003 claims into an agreement that delegates will be serving on employers.
Moving discrimination rulings from HREOC to the courts hasn't led to a more "conservative" approach to the law or the automatic awarding of costs against losing parties, according to a new review.
The AIRC has made it clear that it won't automatically insert the provisions of the casuals' parental leave test case in awards, after it today rejected an AMWU bid to update the Graphic Arts Award.
