The NSW IRC has addressed a disparity that has been a source of discontent among the State’s nurses, awarding those who did their post-graduate training through a hospital – primarily older nurses – an equivalent allowance to their tertiary-trained colleagues, while at the same time increasing all existing post-graduate allowances.
As a result of Work Choices taking effect, the WA IRC no longer has the power to hear contractual benefits claims involving employees of constitutional corporations, the Commission has found.
Adecco, Australia's third largest provider of temporary labour, will boost the training it provides to its temporary workers and treat them more like ongoing employees, according to its global chief executive, Dieter Scheiff.
The ACTU’s new television commercial that began airing tonight focuses on the reductions to protected conditions in AWAs revealed by Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain last May.
Next wave of ACTU advertising campaign starts Sunday; HREOC to launch work and family report; Labor to save $400m by slashing Work Choices spending; Howard's approach to IR risky, lazy: Rudd; ABCC seeks revocation of CFMEU organiser's permit; ABCC explains role in enforcing IC Act; and $631 million in super co-payments in nine months.
An innovative “unified agreement” replacing 16 separate awards and collective agreements plus a number of individual contracts covering around 900 employees at Vision Australia was easier to negotiate under Work Choices’ approval process, according to the organisation’s national HR manager, John Gow.
Expand ABCC jurisdiction to tackle mafia, says MBA; IC Act starts today; WA IRC to consider what is a constitutional corporation; Vale Trevor Veenendaal; Victorian and NSW unions to run anti-Work Choices concerts next month; Bench reserves on Tristar challenge to inquiry; and No replacement yet for WA Employment Protection Minister.
Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has rejected criticism of poor wage outcomes for women on AWAs, and refused to guarantee any individuals would not be worse off as a result of the Work Choices changes.
The Commonwealth Bank has lost its Federal Court appeal against a ruling that it discriminated against employees moved to its CommSec subsidiary in breach of the pre-reform Workplace Relations Act, but a record penalty of $750,000 against it is likely to be cut to $450,000.
An ABS survey taken in May last year - before the full impact of Work Choices was felt - shows that registered individual deals such as AWAs have made little headway, covering just 3.1% of workers in the private sector and 2% in the public sector, while non-managers are earning 3.3% less under AWAs than they do under collective deals.
