Employee Relations MONTHLY December 2010

  • Reality check for Equal Remuneration Case
  • Paid Parental Leave commences 1 January 2011
  • Fair Work Australia Annual Report
  • Unfair dismissal conciliation report
  • Small Business Fair Dismissal Code updated
  • Christmas and New Year Public holiday confusion

Employee Relations MONTHLY July 2010

  • Paid Parental Leave in 2011
  • 5.1 percent unemployment rate
  • FBT – Exclusion of reporting on pooled cars
  • Tip of the Month: Adverse action. Early indications from the Federal Court
  • Other News

Employee Relations MONTHLY June 2010

  • Annual Award Wage Review Decision - $26 per week
  • Labour Price Index shows wages growth slow
  • Tip of the Month: Phasing in modern award wages, penalties and loadings. Does anyone actually understand?

Employee Relations MONTHLY April 2010

  • Equal Remuneration Case underway at Fair Work Australia
  • Annual award wage safety net review
  • One in five employees are casual
  • Guidance on Transitional Pay Rates – Public consultation
  • Tip of the month: Understanding the new rules for absorption of over award payments

Employee Relations MONTHLY March 2010

  • The time for talk is over - the fair work safety net of modern awards and national employment standards applies now
  • Annual award wage safety net review
  • Arbitration and enterprise agreements
  • Tip of the Month: Understanding the difference between an employee and an independent contractor
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions
  • Reminder on the Fair Work Information Statement

Employee Relations MONTHLY Christmas 2009

  • Stage 4 Modern Awards published
  • National minimum conditions
  • Interaction with NES
  • Transitional provisions
  • Award flexibility agreements
  • Getting ready
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY October 2009

  • Getting ready for life under Fair Work
  • States to refer their workplace relations powers to the Commonwealth
  • Spike in unfair dismissal claims
  • Safe Work Australia Bill passes Senate
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?
  • Getting ready for Fair Work – Briefing Session Melbourne

Employee Relations MONTHLY September 2009

  • Transition to modern awards - Spreading the pain over five years
  • Unemployment rate steady at 5.8%
  • Stage 3 modern awards published
  • Safe Work Australia Bill passes Senate
  • Tip of the month: Understanding the new transfer of business rules under the Fair Work Act 2009
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY August 2009

  • Julia Gillard intervenes again in award modernisation
  • Fifty percent of businesses offer paid parental leave
  • Fair work – best practice guides
  • Fair work compliance campaigns
  • Tip of the Month: Understanding the general protections under the Fair Work Act 2009
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY July 2009

  • Wage freeze – Minimum pay rates held at 2008 level for six months
  • Award modernisation stage 3 – IT and telecommunications professional industry award
  • Award modernisation stage 4 - Consultation
  • New remuneration eligibility limits for unfair dismissals
  • Tip of the Month: Understanding the fair dismissal system
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY June 2009

  • Fair Work National Workplace System - Up and running on 1 July 2009
  • Fair Work (Transitional provisions and consequential amendments) Act  passes through Parliament
  • Super not payable on parental, defence service, and community service leave
  • One in ten workers are independent contractors
  • Tip of the Month: Making an enterprise agreement 
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY May 2009

  • Counting down ... less than 7 weeks until Fair work replaces Work choices
  • Working from home and why?
  • Getting ready for 1 July 2009
  • Concessional super contributions cap cut to $25k
  • Super co-contribution maximum reduced
  • Super and ordinary time earnings
  • employee relations online - New in 2009 
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY March 2009

  • Parliament approves the Fair Work Bill
  • Fair Work (Transitional provisions and consequential amendments) Bill
  • Getting ready for 1 July 2009
  • Productivity Commission enquiry into executive pay
  • Golden handshakes and corporate executives
  • employee relations online - New in 2009 
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY February 2009

  • Modernised awards taking shape for 2010
  • Fair Work Bill continues its journey through parliament
  • 2009 Minimum wage review - call for submissions
  • employee relations online - New in 2009 
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY Christmas 2008

  • An overview of the key changes proposed under 
    the FAIR WORK Bill 
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY October 2008

  • Australian Building & Construction Commission to continue until end of 2010
  • Wage growth continues above 4%
  • Job vacancies falling
  • Award modernisation - exposure draft awards
  • Fair Pay Commission monitoring report 2008
  • Tip of the Month: Forward with fairness - collective bargaining in low paid industries
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY September 2008

  • Paid maternity leave - Productivity Commission report
  • Unfair dismissal laws return to small business in 2009
  • Superannuation reporting and lodgement dates
  • Award modernisation - exposure draft awards
  • Increases to federal pay scales
  • Increases to federal award allowances
  • Bosses ignore mental health
  • Tip of the Month: Forward with fairness - planning for the change to agreements
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY August 2008

  • AIRC 2008 Wage decision
  • Unfair dismissal - new remuneration  and compensation limits
  • Older workers are healthier, especially in capital cities: ABS
  • Unemployment and employment rise in July
  • Tip of the Month: Does the qualifying period of employment apply when the business is taken over?
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY July 2008

  • Minimum Wage Decision 2008
  • Flexible award clauses not so flexible
  • Personal Income Tax cuts commence 1 July 2008
  • Tip of the Month: Superannuation guarantee - new rules defining employee earnings base
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

Employee Relations MONTHLY June 2008

  • National Employment Standards announced
  • Australian Industrial Relations Commission travels old path toward modernised awards
  • Workplace Ombudsman information for employers
  • The changing face of part-time employment
  • Wages growing at inflation rate or higher
  • Tip of the Month: Understanding the difference between a preserved award term and an entitlement under the Standard?
  • Around the states - What's making news in state jurisdictions?

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