Employers could face hefty fines or in extreme cases imprisonment if they fail to check the entitlement of new employees to work in Australia, under proposed immigration legislation due to take effect from November. Employers will be required to check documents such as birth certificates, drivers licences or passports to be sure of avoiding penalties.
Hearings have finished in a crucial case in South Australia in which the ASU is seeking to win greater job security for existing casuals, and prevent further casualisation of the workforce.
The Queensland Government will know this Saturday whether the state's 40,000 teachers will accept its latest bargaining proposal, which deals with teacher numbers and working-time issues but leaves wage increases to the IRC to determine.
AXA Australia has provided a 4% a year performance pay pool and introduced standardised hours for its three separate arms under a new agreement negotiated with the Finance Sector Union.
The bitter dispute at Joy Manufacturing in Moss Vale has escalated with the company extending its lockout until September, in what AMWU national assistant secretary Dave Oliver maintains is further evidence of the growing Americanisation of bargaining in Australia.
The labour relations committee of one of Australia's peak employer bodies, the ACCI, is meeting in Darwin today as a precursor to the organisation's policy-making meeting later in the month.
Week two of Campaign 2000 has come and gone in much the same way that week one did - with the MTFU claiming progress in signing companies up to the break-out deal (reproduced in full below), and employers giving mixed reports of activity on their sites.
The director of a Queensland security company ordered by the Ipswich Industrial Magistrate's Court to reimburse an employee almost $100,000 for under-paid wages has withdrawn his appeal against the decision.
Former NSW IR Minister and Attorney-General, Jeff Shaw QC, will be physically working out of his old home ground, HB Higgins Chambers, from next month.
