After failing to reach agreement during six months of negotiations for a new three-year enterprise deal, about 300 doctors working in Victorian public hospitals will next week stop work to discuss the next steps in their campaign.
Victorian unions are maintaining their call for the Bracks Government to reverse the State's referral of industrial relations powers to the Commonwealth as the ALP finalises its policies for this year's State election.
The Howard Government has put up $2.6m a year to subsidise parties that opt for private alternative dispute resolution instead of having their disputes dealt with by the AIRC.
The University of Queensland sacked a senior IR academic because of its "brutal" strategy to downgrade teaching of the discipline, rather than because of his trade union activity or political beliefs, a tribunal has found.
The Fair Pay Commission could set different minimum wages according to industry sectors or geographical areas and may discount pay rises for any tax cuts in next month's federal Budget, AFPC chief Ian Harper said today.
The Fair Pay Commission will call for public submissions on its first minimum wage determination from May 1, with Commissioner Ian Harper today conceding that real wage cuts are a possibility, especially in an economic downturn.
CPI up 3% annually, after 0.9% quarterly rise; Industrial action appeal might go straight to High Court; AIRC orders MUA to halt industrial action on Woodside north west shelf project; New pre-employment psych test claimed to predict dishonest behaviour; and ABCC seminars to explain how to comply with the national construction code.
Amber Oswald - the 16-year-old Sydney juice bar worker who claimed her $99-a-week pay was cut to $59 under a proposed Work Choices AWA - will continue to have her pay and conditions determined by a "pre-reform" s170LK agreement that provided for penalty rates and an above-award rate of pay, following an undertaking given to the AIRC today.
In one of the first big retail deals the SDA has struck under Work Choices, David Jones will pay its 10,000 employees a 6.1% pay rise over two years, lift severance pay entitlements and allow workers to take up to three sick days a year without certification.
