Austrade is trying to convince the AIRC its old agreement can be terminated without disadvantaging senior executive employees who are excluded from its current agreement, certified late last year.
A US study of 41 large companies with advanced recruitment practices has shown that they acquire more than 60% of their new full-time employees via the internet and employee referrals and that these channels are continuing to grow.
Low income workers dependent on the federal minimum wage need a pay rise of between $67 and $180 a week to achieve a reasonable standard of living, according to a university study commissioned by the ACTU to back its 2004 Living Wage claim.
In a pacesetting deal for local government, some 134 employees of Alice Springs Town Council have won 14 weeks paid maternity leave under the terms of a new agreement struck with the ASU and the LHMU.
The FSU will meet with the Bank of Queensland in early February to continue discussions on a proposed new agreement to cover around 400 network and clerical employees, with pay increases of 5.5% a year and a "reasonable span of hours" set to be key union demands.
NSW teachers postpone industrial action, but Victorians to go ahead; and 500 workers threaten further industrial action after stopwork at Queensland cannery.
Australian Industrial Registry employees can now take a week's parental leave from their personal leave, in addition to their longstanding entitlement to 12 weeks paid maternity leave, under a new s170LJ deal certified by the Commission yesterday.
Around 250 female employees of CBA-owned Colonial's funds management and investment arm have had their paid maternity leave provisions doubled by a new agreement.
An attempt by the AWU to impose a $5 weekly training levy on non-union workers covered by a certified agreement has been knocked out by the AIRC as a breach of the Workplace Relations Act's prohibition on bargaining fees.
