The Reserve Bank has struck a deal with the FSU that pays its 311 agreement-covered employees a 4% annual pay rise – well shy of the 4.5% mark that sets off the central bank’s wage growth alarm bells.
CFMEU seeks compensation for high fuel prices; Ratio of HR practitioners to employees on the rise; and Telstra unions to run campaign against job and service cuts.
University deal is one of first to comply with HEWRRs, says union; Only 16% of employers have mature-age workers policy; US statistics bureau reveals 10 most dangerous jobs; and unions say Liberals, not taxpayers, should pay for advertising campaign for second wave IR changes.
The CBA is likely to appeal the Federal Court's invalidation of a key subsidiary's certified agreement, after the court found the bank's strategy to avoid its awards and agreements was akin to the bottom of the harbour tax avoidance schemes of the 1970s.
Australians strongly believe that awards are the best way to set wages and conditions and that individual contracts favour employers, but also say employers and employees should negotiate pay directly, according to a national survey.
A casual labourer was victimised by his former employer when it refused to re-employ him on a new job because he had previously complained to HREOC and had threatened to lodge a further complaint, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
National Basketball League players will be covered by a three-year agreement negotiated by the MEAA after a Full Bench of the AIRC today approved the deal, subject to variations in paternity leave provisions.
The proportion of medium to large employers providing paid maternity leave has almost doubled since 2001, according to an equal opportunity agency survey, while a new report partially attributes Telstra's 100% return to work rate after maternity leave to its flexible working arrangements.
EDS Australia has lost a ballot to renew its 170LK "People Agreement" after a vigorous union campaign for a "no" vote by APESMA and the ASU in South Australia, where the IT giant's outsourcing agreements with the State Government are up for grabs.
