Different ways of rewarding high-performing, senior or specialist employees can be eroded when enterprise agreements require all covered employees to be treated in the same way. One solution is to allow some employees to opt out o...

Employers, some of whom have employees that are covered by a modern award for the first time as a result of the wider reach of the new system, have had time to familiarise themselves with the new system, and have had to determine ...

Recently a large employer found to its cost that union bargaining representatives knew the employer was signing up to a deal it did not truly appreciate but did nothing to alert the employer to its error.  The enterprise agreemen...

The minimum wage panel of Fair Work Australia (“FWA”) handed down its annual decision on minimum wages at 10:00 am this morning. FWA has made the following determinations: to increase the national minimum wage by $17.10 ...

Will you be caught by the widening of responsibility for "safety and fairness" and remuneration in the road transport industry??? In November 2011 the Road Safety Remuneration Bill (“RSRB”) was introduced into Federal Parli...

The new Work Health Safety Act 2011 is uniform legislation designed to apply to all Australian states and territories from 1 January 2012, replacing all other state and territory occupational health and safety legislation. As well...