ACOSS and the ACTU have released plans to improve childcare availability and cut costs for most working parents amid speculation of policy changes in the Federal Budget to accompany the government's welfare to work program.
The flight attendants' union has finalised three-year deals paying 3% annual increases with Qantas and its low-cost-subsidiary Jetstar and has agreed in principle to a framework deal for Virgin Blue.
Centrelink has escaped becoming the first prosecution under new workplace surveillance laws after NSW prosecutors baulked at uncertainty about whether the State legislation applies to federal agencies.
Wage growth in federal enterprise agreements has reached an eight-year high of 4.5% a year, due to surging pay rises in the public sector, particularly in education.
Eldercare is the major source of work-life conflict for Canadian workers, and it's likely Australia will follow the same trend, according to one of North America's leading academic researchers on work and family.
Virgin Blue's 1000 ground services and call centre employees are to begin voting early next month on a new three-year deal, struck with the TWU, that delivers 3% annual pay rises, plus the chance of further increases via a gainsharing program.
Unions and the term "employee" will disappear in the next 25 to 30 years, leading forecaster Phil Ruthven has told a work-life balance conference in Perth.
The SA IRC has proposed adopting the current Federal Minimum Wage as the new "minimum remuneration standard" under the State's Fair Work Act passed last year.
Universities have dominated this year's Employer of Choice for Women citations from the federal Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, taking out 21 of the 116 honourable mentions.
