
Kawanna Salary is coming!
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

Wage Growth Indicators
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

High Court Decision - Right of Entry Permits
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