Rates of pay excluding bonuses increased by a headline rate of 0.6% in the June quarter and 3.6% over the 2002-03 financial year, according to the ABS Wage Cost Index, released today.
Employees at Australian Hardboards have endorsed a new agreement while talks have broken down at Boral Roofing, after the first industrial action against the companies in 30 years.
Bob Herbert will step down as chief executive of the Australian Industry Group in February next year after 43 years with the organisation and be replaced by his deputy, Heather Ridout.
The crucial bill to move most unfair dismissals into the federal IR system has failed to pass the Senate, after it rejected a series of amendments proposed by the Democrats.
WR Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that the Office of the Employment Advocate has commissioned a $200,000 survey of more than 3,000 workers on freedom of association.
A Queensland tribunal has awarded an apprentice boilermaker $26,000 in damages and costs after finding he was sexually harassed by two of his male colleagues.
Wage rises in March quarter federal enterprise agreements grew by an average of 3.5% a year - down considerably from the 4.1% recorded in December, according to the DEWR.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott has written to the four big car manufacturers and more than 40 of their suppliers asking them to consider whether they are giving away their management prerogative, after an IPA analysis of their agreements found they were ceding too much power to unions.
An office supply company discriminated against a profoundly deaf employee who relied on sign language to communicate when it asked her why she couldn't lip read, a tribunal has ruled.
