A full bench of the AIRC has reserved its decision on the NUW's application to ensure Victorian award employees aren't penalised financially when serving on juries.
Eleven years after the Kennett Government abolished Victorian awards, 350,000 of the State's workers have today moved a step closer to having their employment regulated by federal common rule awards, after an AIRC full bench reserved its decision on the rollout of the new system.
The uncertainty surrounding the use of federal greenfields agreements for employers involved in major resource and construction projects has been removed today, following an AIRC full bench decision.
A company that unilaterally decided to cut its chief executive's $173,000 pay packet by 10% committed an anticipatory breach of the man's employment contract that entitled him to consider it rescinded, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled.
The AIRC Victorian common rule test case full bench today granted a request by the parties to be able to continue negotiating for a further two days before the start of hearings to determine the way the new award provisions will be rolled out from January next year.
$19 Living Wage rise passed on to Tasmanian award workers; AIRC conciliating Victorian ambulance dispute; Directions hearing for WA redundancy test case next week, ahead of November hearings; WA public sector workers win 7.6% over two years in first consent arbitration under new laws; High Court allows worker to have his day in court to argue common law injury susceptibility claim; and Former PM Keating's right-hand-man says Federal Labor set to reintroduce the worst of the old awards system.
The rise of casual work needs to be met by devising new, sustainable labour standards for flexibility, using models such as the construction industry's portable long service leave scheme, IR academic John Buchanan told a conference today.
Chicken Littles in the Howard Government and the business community should stop squawking and recognise that the casual conversion clauses in 29 federal and 37 state awards haven't made the sky fall in, according to Shadow Workplace Relations Minister, Craig Emerson.
