- A.C.T. Nurses Award 2000
- Aboriginal Communities’ - Community Development Employment Projects (South Australia) Award 1998 [Transitional]
- ADI Limited (Employees) Award 1999
- ADI Limited (Employees) Award 1999 [Transitional]
- ADI Limited (Middle Management and Professional) Award 1998
- ADI Limited (Middle Management and Professional) Award 1998 [Transitional]
- Airline Operations - Salaried Staff (Ansett Australia) Award 1998
- Airline Operations (Transport Workers’) Award 1998
- Airline Operations (Transport Workers’) Award 1998 [Transitional]
- Airport Retail Concessions Award 1990
- AMP Employees’ Award 2002
- Asphalt and Bitumen Industry (NSW and ACT) Award 1999
- Asphalt and Bitumen Industry (WA) Award 2000
234 latest award changes - in alphabetical order by name of award
Donut King unable to justify hole in payments
A Donut King outlet which deliberately underpaid 10 of its casual staff – some as young as 15 – has been fined $30,000. Delivering his verdict, Federal Magistrate Philip Burchardt said it was “important that people in low-paid jobs with only basic conditions of employment get at the very least the minimum entitlements …”
Federal Magistrate Burchardt said a proper penalty was important as a general deterrent, noting that breaches of workplace laws were “regrettably rife in the retail industry”.
The court was told that the KNL Group Pty Ltd – trading as Donut King at Melbourne’s Cranbourne Centro Shopping Centre – had underpaid 10 casual staff amounts Continue reading →
400 latest award changes - in alphabetical order by name of award
- A.C.T. Funeral Industry Award 2002
- Aboriginal and Community Controlled Health Services (Community Health Nursing Staff) Award 2002
- Aboriginal Communities’ - Community Development Employment Projects (South Australia) Award 1998 [Transitional]
- Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc. (SA) Award, 1999 [Transitional]
- Aboriginal Organisations Health and Related Services (Northern Territory) Award 2002
- Adhesives Industry and Gelatine Manufacturing Award 2001 [Transitional]
- Airline Officers (Qantas Airways Limited) Award 2000
- Airline Operations - Clerical and Administrative Award 1999
- Airline Operations - Clerical and Administrative Award 1999 [Transitional]
- Airport Catering Award 2002
- Airport Retail Concessions Award 2003
- Airport Retail Concessions Award 2003 [Transitional]
- AMP Employees’ Award 2002
- Asphalt and Bitumen Industry (NSW and ACT) Award 1999
Random audits today for retail outlets at Chadstone shopping centre
The Federal Workplace Ombudsman will send in a team of six workplace inspectors to randomly audit up to 100 retail outlets at Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre today and tomorrow.
The audit will check to see if employers are complying with their time and wages records and pay slip obligations.
The blitz follows a similar campaign at Melbourne’s Southland Shopping Centre last month.
Four other major shopping centres – Dandenong, Fountain Gate, Geelong and Mornington Peninsula – will be targeted between November and February.
40 latest award changes - N through to Z
The latest 40 award changes affecting industries and occupations commencing with the letters N through to Z. Industries include Building & Construction; Cattle; Nurses; Off-Course Agency; Pest Control, Aboriginal Council; Ports; Tourism; Local Council; Roofing; Salaried Professionals; Security; Social & Community Services; Power; St; John Ambulance; Tabcorp; Coal; Timber; Travel; Uranium; Legal Profession; & Weight Watchers
29 latest award changes - L through to M
The latest 29 award changes affecting industries and occupations commencing with the letters L through to M. Industries include Laundries; Liquor & Accommodation; Local Government; Medical Benefits; Metals; Mining; Mobile Cranes; Motor; & Municipalities. Continue reading →
24 latest award changes - D through to J
The latest 24 award changes affecting industries and occupations commencing with the letters D through to J. Industries include Disability Services; Electricity; Engine Drivers; Gas; Fibre Processing; Fish; Food Beverages and Tobacco; Migrants; Gardening; General Employees; Glass; Catering; Mining; Training; Hairdressing; Health; Hotels; Ice-Making; Independent Schools; & Insulation
36 latest award changes - A through to C
The latest 36 award changes affecting industries and occupations commencing with the letters A through to C. Industries include Aboriginal, Airline, ASU, Automotive, Bakers, Butter, Building, Clerical, Cemetery, City Officers, Coal, Coles, Commercial Sales, & Crisis Services. Continue reading →
Appointment of Executive Director to Fair Work Australia announced
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, has announced the appointment of Ms Marion van Rooden as the Executive Director of the Fair Work Australia Establishment Taskforce.
Fair Work Australia will be the new independent umpire overseeing the Rudd Government’s new workplace relations system. Continue reading →
NT Government wins against Union’s desire to disrupt senior students study program
In what the Australian Education Union is claiming as a first, the Northern Territory Labour Government has used the provisions in the current WorkChoices legislation to present a case before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) – seeking to stop teachers going on strike and by doing so disadvantaging senior students.
The AIRC has agreed with the Northern Territory Government and has suspended any further protected action until Continue reading →
Small Business Fair Dismissal Code Checklist
The release of detail related to the new Workplace Relations Law include the promise that new Unfair Dismissal Laws will start (if possible) from July 2009. Whilst in general the changes will not affect employers who currently have 100 or more employees, the laws do significantly impact upon employers with less than 100 - and even more so with regards those employers with less than 15 employees.
As a precursor the Rudd/Gillard government has detailed that an unfair dismissal application for employees in such a business will not be available until after 12 months of employment. Further small business employers who are able to prove they have dismissed via the Fair Dismissal Code will be found to have dismissed fairly.
Below is the intended Code Checklist - we would suggest that small businesses begin their preparation for the implementation of this code as soon as possible. Continue reading →
Synopsis on new Australian Industrial Relations System announced today
Some members will be aware that The Oi Group’s Senior Partner was a part of the Business Advisory Group consisting of 11 organisations who have been meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard to consult on behalf of major Australian employers with regards the development of key elements of the Government’s workplace relations reforms. That period of development and consultation, as well as further extensive consultation with unions, other employers and state and territory stakeholders has now concluded. Today the Deputy Prime Minister announced the following details.
The new workplace relations system will be built on:
Will Rudd/Gillard be able to keep promise regarding redundancy obligations for small businesses?
In last week’s statement and exposure draft concerning award modernisation the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) detailed at clause 23 that it had included in the draft model provision regarding redundancy a requirement for … severance pay, at reduced levels, for employees of small employers.
Today Deputy Prime Minister and Employment Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has indicated that the government would be making a submission Continue reading →