NSW's 14,400 police officers will begin voting soon on a new agreement with the State Government that provides a 16% wage increase over its four-year term plus death and disability insurance, while the states' 28,000 public sector nurses will receive 14% over the next 3.5 years after their pay dispute with the Government was put in the hands of the NSW IRC.
Manufacturing continues to be a male-dominated industry at all levels, but it is initiating changes that will help it adapt to the challenge of the tightening labour market, skills shortage and ageing workforce, according to a new equal opportunity agency report.
The AIRC has questioned why Coles Supermarkets Australia provided only a little more than half of 11 minutes of security video footage of a sacked checkout operator as evidence in an unfair dismissal case.
Some 150 employees of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School have secured a day off each year for industry-related activities such as film festivals, plus a day of health and wellness leave, in their new certified agreement.
Skilled labour shortage the biggest supply constraint in construction, says survey; Salary survey suggests pay pushing up; 84% of non-permanent employees believe they are truly casual, says ABS; More US employers outsourcing key HR functions; Smith attacks linking of water funding to IR practices; and Andrews sets out his objectives for changing agreement-making.
A female salesperson was sexually harassed when she overheard a butcher telling a male workmate he'd rather be in a spa with a bourbon in one hand and a c*** in the other, a tribunal has found.
The Queensland IRC has ordered an employee sacked for alleged misappropriation to pay $110,000 in costs, including indemnity costs, after finding she forced her former employer to incur "a huge amount" of costs but never intended to proceed with her unfair dismissal trial.
Labour shortages might be starting to drive up wages, with today's ABS data showing a trend quarterly increase in pay rates excluding bonuses of 1.1% for the March quarter and 3.9% annually - the highest year-on-year growth since the Bureau first released the statistics in 1998.
The Howard Government should exempt small businesses from the looming super choice regime, rather than unfair dismissal laws, Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley told a small business summit in Sydney today.
