Posts tagged "Tony Burke"

Australia's peak body for small business groups will not immediately discount an Australian Council of Trade Unions proposal to introduce sector-wide enterprise bargaining.

The shape of Australia's looming Jobs and Skills Summit is becoming clearer, as senior federal government ministers tout the end of one-sided enterprise agreement terminations and a new kind of digital skills apprenticeship as leading items on the agenda.

Australian small businesses will be given six months to adjust to a new federal government plan that will see 11 million workers gain access to paid domestic violence leave.

The government this week will take the first step in killing off the controversial Australian Building and Construction Commission by stripping back its powers “to the bare legal minimum”.

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke has provided further detail on Labor's minimum wage submission made this afternoon to the Fair Work Commission.

Gender pay equity would become an objective of the Fair Work Act under a Labor government, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese announced yesterday.

The Coalition and Labor have been arguing over the “better off overall test”, known as the BOOT. What is it, why are they arguing, and who is right?

The debate over the Coalition’s industrial relations omnibus bill is escalating, with Labor saying it would result in pay cuts for workers.

  Politicians should be more like employees of a private company when it comes to claiming travel expenses, according to Prime Minister Ton…

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, along with the Australian Food and Grocery Council, have proposed a new dispute resolution body and…