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A record number of women in the world are working, but low pay, poor job opportunities and gender inequalities have resulted in stagnant poverty rates, according to an ILO report launched on International Women’s Day.

Australia's manufacturing productivity growth is likely to continue to lag behind that of the US, while five other industries that are also currently out-performed - retail, wholesale, communications, utilities and finance - have the potential to close their productivity gaps, according to a Productivity Commission staff working paper.

The NSW IRC has started to develop principles for determining the obligations of federal system employers of children under the state’s new child labour laws.

The HREOC has called on the Howard Government to double to 20 days the personal/carers leave in the AFPCS, to reinstate "right to request" provisions and to require the OEA to report annually on AWA wages and conditions, but ACCI has dismissed the carers leave proposal as "an ambit claim not grounded in reality".

Gender equity in Australia - including in the workplace - has been on the decline over the last decade, despite earlier gains that made the country a world leader in women's rights, according to a new academic study.

Unions reject Qantas sale undertakings; OWS wins $12,000 penalty for $2,162 in unpaid wages; and Health has significant impact on men’s wages: Melbourne Institute; and Hockey joins Expenditure Review Committee.

In another sign of a tight labour market, a new job website is offering referral payments of up to $10,000 to members of the public who help find employees to fill advertised vacancies.

The Victorian Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate is investigating the proposed purchase by John Holland Engineering of Ansett's Tullamarine maintenance facility and the company's AWA offer to employees - a move unions fear also has implications for Qantas.

After almost 15 months of negotiations between Virgin Blue and the flight attendants' union, some 1300 cabin crew will begin voting later this month on a new five-year agreement that provides a 3% pay rise plus a 2% bonus each year, boosts part-time employment, and introduces new rosters in league with a jointly-developed fatigue management system.

Unions will not compromise on their opposition to exemptions for small businesses from unfair dismissal laws in the ALP’s forthcoming IR policy, ACTU president Sharan Burrow said today.