Eldercare is the major source of work-life conflict for Canadian workers, and it's likely Australia will follow the same trend, according to one of North America's leading academic researchers on work and family.
Virgin Blue's 1000 ground services and call centre employees are to begin voting early next month on a new three-year deal, struck with the TWU, that delivers 3% annual pay rises, plus the chance of further increases via a gainsharing program.
Boeing has this afternoon won an order from the AIRC restraining the NSW IRC from dealing any further with its long-running Williamtown maintenance dispute.
Work Choices to take effect late March; Independent Contractors Bill ASAP: Andrews; PSA threatens work bans after NSW Government reveals plans to cut 5,000 public sector jobs; Super union for Victorian emergency services; 40% of employers offer job sharing, says Hudson paper; and AWOTE up 1% in quarter, 5.5% annually, reaches $1,000 mark in private sector.
Unions and the term "employee" will disappear in the next 25 to 30 years, leading forecaster Phil Ruthven has told a work-life balance conference in Perth.
The AIRC has reserved its decision on Boeing's application for a s128 order stopping the NSW IRC from arbitrating its long running dispute with the AWU at Williamtown RAAF base.
The SA IRC has proposed adopting the current Federal Minimum Wage as the new "minimum remuneration standard" under the State's Fair Work Act passed last year.
Apprentices in the metal industry will be able to advance with a greater emphasis on competency rather than time-served, and will receive extra pay if they start after completing years 11 and 12, following an AIRC ruling yesterday.
The CFMEU (construction & general division) and major construction company Bovis Lend Lease have struck a sixth-round national deal that delivers employees a 13% pay increase over a three-year period.
