The ACTU has accused the Government of "trying to nobble the independent umpire" with its new safety net legislation which, if it gets through the Senate, would put pressure on the AIRC to confine living wage increases to the lowest paid workers.
WR Minister Tony Abbott will legislate to require the AIRC to consider employment impacts on the low-paid before adjusting the safety net, while Labor has released a raft of proposed amendments to the Government's bill to update the Sex Discrimination Act.
Some 350 workers at Wattyl Limited will be the first in the current paint industry bargaining round to consider a new enterprise agreement in a vote next week.
Two recent decisions highlighting the difficulty of NSW residents with a police history in finding child-related employment coincide with changes to State legislation that has tightened the screening process for candidates seeking to work around children.
Social and family policy has focussed too much on the needs of career-oriented women and too little on women who balance work and family or choose not to work, a UK academic who has the ear of PM John Howard told a Melbourne conference today.
Four employees who breached Nationwide News Ltd's drug and alcohol policy have won their jobs back, despite the employer having a valid reason for dismissal and using a "copybook" termination process.
Grocon withdraws bid to axe Setka's permit; Abbott blocks award of construction tender; Further delay to Qantas finger scans; ABC deal voted up; and anti-pattern-bargaining legislation takes effect.
The NSW IRC has ruled that a woman transferred to a new employer after 11 years service was not on probation when she was subsequently dismissed, despite signing employment documents agreeing that she was on trial.
