Employment law has failed to keep pace with the challenges thrown up by the "new deal at work" that has slashed employees' job tenure and job security, leading US employment lawyer Katherine Stone told a conference today.
Large corporations are expecting to pay their employees remuneration increases ranging from 4.2% for operations/support staff to 4.4% for senior executives this year, according to a survey of employee benefits.
Employers would need advanced authorisation from a regulator before they could monitor or conduct surveillance on their employees under one of two options on workplace privacy put forward by the Victorian Law Reform Commission today.
Westpac has announced today that it will pay its 22,000 Australian employees a 4% pay rise from October 1 despite failing to conclude bargaining negotiations with the FSU, while the CBA - which is in a protracted bargaining dispute with the union - will oppose a resolution the FSU is putting to its November 5 AGM.
Defence Housing Authority employees have won the right to purchase up to four weeks annual leave, under a new s170LK enterprise agreement certified by the AIRC today.
An overweight coal miner sacked three times by Anglo Coal's Capcoal operations for being unfit for work has won a discrimination claim against the company after it then refused to let him on site at a different mine.
Almost two-thirds of manufacturers employing more than 100 people are experiencing difficulty in recruiting skilled workers, underlining the need for business and government to develop strategies to close the "skills gap", according to the Australian Industry Group.
A permanent sub-committee made up of union, staff and management representatives will monitor workloads under a new enterprise agreement struck between the federal Department of Health and Ageing and five unions.
