Skills shortages, labour force participation rates and labour productivity must be addressed to remedy emerging constraints on economic growth, according to Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane.
Transport company Nolans Interstate Transport has signed most of its workforce up to AWAs that provide a single rate of pay that rolls in almost all loadings and penalties.
A new agreement for the troubled Newcastle University contains more stringent requirements for consultation with unions over major change, while it also delivers 26 weeks paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and four weeks paid parental leave for partners.
New owner free to put old employees on probation; Unauthorised toilet breaks justify dismissal; Childcare worker's union rep should have stepped-in: Tribunal; and AIRC turns to the dictionary to define “unfair dismissal”.
The NSW IRC has found an employer's misleading conduct made an executive's contract unfair under the State's s106 unfair contract provisions, in the first full bench ruling on unfair conduct since the NSW Court of Appeal's crucial Sydney Water judgment.
Female employees at electrical products manufacturer HPM Industries Pty Ltd are entitled to four weeks paid maternity leave, while workers of retirement age can pocket a special one-off $5000 payment if they pass on their skills via an extended notice period, under the company’s fifth-generation enterprise agreement.
The Victorian Government has today unveiled a proposal to allow workers to take two months' long service leave after 10 years, rather than waiting 15 years to access three months leave.
The NSW Police Service has been ordered to pay $10,000 in damages for placing a constable on restricted duties because of an abnormal blood condition called sickle cell trait.