Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has thrown her weight behind the AiG's bid to delay the April 4 rollout of the contractor driver minimum rates order, warning of adverse effects on the economy, the movement of freight and on the viability of businesses.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash says that legislation to re-establish the ABCC will return to the Senate at the earliest opportunity during the May Budget sitting.
Former Fair Work Commission Vice-President Michael Lawler's conduct on the ABC's Four Corners program was "far below" what the public was entitled to expect from somebody in his position, according to the silk who investigated his conduct.
The conduct of former senior Fair Work Commission member Michael Lawler provides a reasonable basis to ask the Governor-General to remove him on the grounds of proven misbehaviour, according to a report tabled in Federal Parliament.
A Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal full bench will next Tuesday hear four separate applications seeking to delay the start-date of the contractor driver minimum payments order and challenging the likelihood of it improving road safety.
The Turnbull Government is hedging on whether it will release the report on Fair Work Commission Vice President Michael Lawler now that he has resigned from the tribunal.
Border Force and immigration employees will walk off the job for 24 hours on the eve of Easter and might then maintain rolling stoppages across the holiday period, as the CPSU seeks to pressure the federal government to ease restrictions in its bargaining policy in the wake of Defence employees voting down a proposed deal.
Road freight industry association NatRoad will tomorrow ask Employment Minister Michaelia Cash to intervene in an application to delay the start in April of a Road Safety Remuneration Order which it says could create a two-tiered payment system that discriminates against owner drivers.
Employees in Employment Minister Michaelia Cash's department have narrowly voted-up a new enterprise deal that provides a 6% pay increase over three years.
