Three hundred employees at a Victorian private prison will receive an additional pay rise if their personal leave over 12 months is collectively lower than 95 hours per capita, under a deal struck with the CPSU Victoria which has been overwhelmingly voted up.
Fair Work Australia has this afternoon approved an AIPA application to seek authorisation from Qantas long haul pilots to take industrial action that could begin in July.
MUA declines Patrick invitation for FWA to resolve remaining claims; CFMEU wins $5000 penalty against Abigroup; and Searle takes seat in NSW Upper House.
Patrick has notified its container terminal employees that it won't pay them or allow them to perform work while they participate in week-long partial work bans that begin today and tomorrow, while Qantas long-haul pilots have today applied for a ballot to authorise industrial action, and FWA has granted the ballot order sought by licensed aircraft mechanical engineers.
A Victorian tribunal has renewed three-year race discrimination exemptions for two companies that must comply with restrictive United States export laws because of their contracts to supply the US military, after hearing that only 10 people since 2007 had been affected by the existing exemptions.
MUA imposes new bans at Patrick container terminals; Jetstar temporarily halting hiring on individual contracts; and FWA criticises Coles subsidiary's approach to HR.
Provisions in a Jetstar subsidiary's individual contracts breach the modern pilots' award, according to a Federal Court action lodged this week by pilots' union the AFAP, while the court will in July hear an adverse action case brought by the "Sunstate Six" - a group of licensed aircraft mechanical engineers allegedly disciplined after reporting aircraft defects.
Private sector wage rates excluding bonuses in the private sector are rising at 4% a year in trend terms - the highest rate in two years - while the sector's rates including bonuses in the private sector are growing more rapidly than in any period since 2008, according to the ABS.
Tonight's federal Budget cuts fringe benefit concessions for employer-supplied or salary-sacrificed cars, introduces extensive new measures to increase skills, training and participation and cuts public sector spending by $1.1 billion.
The Federal Magistrates Court has ordered a company and its director to pay more thann $41,000 in backpay and fines for refusing to pay two trainees employed over a four-month period on Labor's transitional individual employment contracts.
