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.
Mothers in part-time work are increasingly wanting longer hours, while higher-skilled jobs are associated with greater negative impacts on family life, according to new research.
The Federal Government has hailed a significant reduction in absentee rates among Centrelink employees, attributed by the agency to new initiatives including early intervention and rehabilitation and more flexible working arrangements.
Employees at the University of Ballarat have launched a class action, claiming the employer has breached the Workplace Relations Act by making false and misleading statements about the AWAs it is offering.
A management consultancy has lost a provisional bid to restrain competition from two former top executives who left the company late last year to start their own rival business.
