By Workforce on March 12, 2010
WFD: The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate rose 0.1% in Feb, to 5.3% (after the Jan figure was “downwardly revised” to 5.2%), according to ABS Labour Force stats released on March 11 (WF1714). The number of people unemployed increased by 10,700 to 615,900. The number of people employed during Feb increased slightly by just 400 people, taking ...more
Posted in HR Management, Workplace Relations | Tagged industrial disputes, unemployment |
By HR Report on March 11, 2010
The Aust Services Unions has launched its pay equity test case on pressday, the ACTU has announced.
The case will be the first run under, and help define, the Fair Work Act’s equal remuneration principles and covers the 200,000-plus social and community services (SACS) workers. The ASU has said it will seek pay rises based on ...more
Posted in Workplace Relations | Tagged Fair Work Act, Fair Work Australia, pay equity |
By Workforce on February 26, 2010
WFD: The labour price index for the 12 months to the Dec quarter 2009 increased by 3.0% on trend terms, the ABS announced on Feb 24. Deputy PM & WR Minister Julia Gillard told the National Press Club the wages growth was the lowest since records had been kept. This was a reflection of the ...more
Posted in HR Management, Workplace Relations | Tagged Fair Work Act, Fair Work Australia, financial crisis, Julia Gillard, pay increase |
By Workforce on January 29, 2010
The BCA says “greater clarity” is needed on how good faith bargaining (GFB) should work under the Fair Work Act. A BCA discussion paper – Embedding Workplace Collaboration: Good Faith Bargaining – released on press day suggests “more formal guidance”, perhaps a code of practice, on GFB requirements is required. It says govt has an ...more
Posted in Workplace Relations | Tagged Fair Work Act, good faith bargaining |
By Workforce on November 27, 2009
With the immediate future of legislation to enable a national IR system on January 1 next year still uncertain, insults were flying on Nov 25 as time threatened to run out before Parliament was scheduled to rise on Nov 26 (WF1706).
Posted in Workplace Relations | Tagged Fair Work, Fair Work Act, Fair Work Australia, Julia Gillard, work choices |
By Workforce on November 17, 2009
The experience of good faith bargaining under the Fair Work Act has confirmed no-one is obliged to make concessions or sign up to a deal they don’t agree with, Acting PM Julia Gillard said in her address to the Julian Small Foundation in Sydney last night (Nov 12).
Posted in Workplace Relations | Tagged Fair Work, Fair Work Act, Fair Work Australia, good faith bargaining, Julia Gillard |
By Occupational Health News on November 11, 2009
The draft model OHS Act (see Rudd lays down law on workplace safety: OHN comment) will now proceed to its next stage after the public comment period closed on Monday Nov 9.
Posted in HR Management, OH&S, Workplace Relations | Tagged Model OHS Act, OH&S legislation, OHS laws |
By Workforce on October 2, 2009
The Rudd govt’s individual flexibility arrangements (IFAs) were “nothing like AWAs”, Deputy PM & WR Minister Julia Gillard said on press day (October 2). Speaking at the opening of the LHMU Tas branch leaders conference in Hobart, she said there had been some “wrong statements” about IFAs.
Posted in Workplace Relations | Tagged Fair Work Act, Fair Work Australia, flexible work arrangements, IFAs, Individual flexibility arrangements (IFAs), Julia Gillard, unions |
