LABOR has rounded on Finance Minister Nick Minchin over his claim that Australia does not have a skills shortage and for blaming labour market pressures on low unemployment figures.
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HOMEOWNERS have been hit with another interest rate rise, the first ever during an election campaign, as mortgage rates head to a 13-year high.
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The mining industry is on tenterhooks today, with pilots from the mining airline National Jet meeting to decide what type of industrial action to take in an effort to force the company to abolish Australian Workplace Agreements.
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STAFF at a Melbourne country club were pressured into signing individual contracts and allegedly warned they would lose benefits, including sporting donations provided to employees' children, unless they agreed to the below-award agreements.
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The Federal Government's fairness test is insufficient to prevent employers using Work Choices to erode the conditions of employees in a weak bargaining position, according to a university report commissioned by the Victorian Government's Workplace Rights Advocate.
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The Workplace Authority will from next week begin publishing on its database the collective agreements that have been lodged with it since the fairness test was introduced on May 7.
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About 120 community correction officers from around the metropolitan area have decided to take industrial action over working conditions.
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