The University of NSW has included a novel $3,000-a-year bonus to meet the high cost of living in Sydney as part of its new wages offer to academics, claiming it is the first provision of its kind.
Queensland's police union has secured a commitment from the State Government to provide a restructured wage system and pay rise of 3.5%-a-year, but the parties remain at loggerheads over new legislation that the union says will strip its members' rights.
A full bench of the SA IRC will decide whether bargaining fees are barred from State enterprise agreements, after a senior Commission member said he had "serious doubts" about their legality.
In a blow to the Cole Royal Commission's bid to bring construction industry stakeholders together this week to improve OHS, the CFMEU has decided not to attend.
The IRC has ruled that a bargaining period ends when the parties are ready to put an agreement to employees, regardless of whether the deal is voted up or not.
In a significant win for Macquarie Bank, two of its former Asia-based employees have lost a multi-million unfair contracts case they launched five years ago.
The Victorian Opposition won't reveal whether it plans to oppose the State Government's new legislative bid to move low-paid Victorian workers onto the federal safety net.
In a decision that protects workers' entitlements when corporates restructure, the Federal Court has found that employees at troubled fashion label, Coogi, were still employed by the primary enterprise when it folded because their transfer to shelf companies was not effective.
The battle over paid maternity leave intensified yesterday, with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward telling a Sydney business audience the entitlement was "dirt cheap" at $350m a year, while Finance Minister Nick Minchin said the $415m to $780m cost would be a "major new burden on taxpayers".
