Kawanna Salary is a region specific online salary benchmarking and remuneration service for the construction , contracting and mining sectors. Kawanna Salary will absorb the annual Drayton’s Civil Construction Remuneration Survey. The sectors covered are as follows: Asphalt; Pipelines; Mining; Electrical and mechanical engineering; and Surveying. Kawanna Salary will focus on regions in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. We will work with our clients to provide an u

The trends in enterprise bargaining are still providing low wage growth of approximately 2.5% average annual wage increase. As a result of collective bargaining and union or third party involvement, enterprise agreements tend to provide a higher wage outcome than the across the economy wage indicators. such as the Wage Price Index. This index provides the overall wage growth is a modest 2.0% for the 12 months preceding the September 2017 quarter. This low wage growth is a res

The High Court of Australia has refused the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and Victorian WorkCover Authority to challenge the requirement that registered union officials must hold a valid right of entry permit in accordance with the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) in order to enter the site for suspected workplace health and safety breaches . Construction union officials are forbidden to access the job site without a federal right-of-entry permit. The High C