The ACCI has rejected outright the ACTU's test case bid to extend unpaid maternity leave to three years, saying the current 12-month safety net provision is "more than adequate".
Channel Seven has offered about 2,000 workers a 9% increase on their award base rates of pay over three years in its latest round of bargaining with the CPSU.
In a landmark decision with huge ramifications for Australian shipping, a full bench of the IRC has effectively found that its jurisdiction extends to non-Australian employees of foreign-owned companies.
The TCFU has filed Federal Court actions against 30 clothing manufacturing companies, alleging they have breached outworker and contractor provisions in the federal clothing trades award.
Productivity across Australia's five ports has reached the highest level recorded, at 26.9 containers an hour in the June quarter, according to the latest Waterline report.
The NSW IRC has adjourned for a month an important test case on whether employers can offer s170LK agreements during bargaining periods to workers on State awards.
A council in South Australia has introduced a new covert surveillance policy that formalises the employer's right to monitor workers suspected of gross misconduct.
