Transnational companies are “very worried” about industrial instability in Australia – and its government-induced instability that concerns them, according to the director of Sydney University’s Workplace Research Centre, John Buchanan.
The Federal Court will order Tristar to keep dismissed die shop supervisor Marty Peek on full pay, but not to reinstate him ahead of a full hearing later this month, following interlocutory proceedings this afternoon.
The federal ALP is still to determine whether its new IR regime will be based on a federal or a national model, and whether the Howard Government’s building watchdog – the ABCC – will survive if it wins office, according to the party’s Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for IR, Brendan O’Connor.
Unions seeks injunction against Tristar sacking, as OWS issues warning; Della Bosca retains IR portfolio; and ACTU Boys in the Boardroom ad now available.
The ACCI has urged the AFPC to cap any minimum wage increases at lower levels than it granted last year, but does not argue for a specific dollar amount in its submission to the AFPC current pay review.
One year since Work Choices became law, the President of the AIRC, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has released Commission statistics that back-up ABS figures showing low levels of industrial disputes under the new IR regime, and also show a significant drop in federal unfair termination applications.
The end of the big productivity surge of the 1990s means that the RBA's wages "line in the sand" will have to be reduced from 4.5% to 4%, according to Credit Suisse chief economist Barry Hughes.
The Federal Government has indicated that it will be after the Australian Fair Pay Commission hands down its mid-year minimum wage decision before it asks the AIRC to begin the award rationalisation process.
The ACTU is seeking a $28 a week increase in minimum wages from the Fair Pay Commission – equivalent to about 5.5% per year at the level of the Federal Minimum Wage – in its submission lodged with the award wage-setting body today.
Confectioner Darrell Lea is offering a five-year Work Choices AWA to casuals that freezes wage rates, scraps penalty rates, pares back casual loading, and reduces minimum engagements to one hour, according to the Federal Opposition.
