HR practitioners don't see themselves as having a strategic role in driving environmental sustainability within their organisations - indeed they believe environmental improvement initiatives will be taken more seriously if initiated outside the HR department, according to a new university study.
The Federal Government has effectively set a 3% cap on annual pay rises across the Australian public service over the next two years under a new bargaining framework that also, for the first time, enshrines workplace delegates' rights.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick told an Equal Pay Day forum in Sydney today that she lacked the resources needed to use her power under the Fair Work Act to seek equal remuneration orders. The forum coincided with the release of an issues paper by the federal department that is leading a review of the equal opportunity agency.
Dave the industrial chemist uses IFA to balance work/family, in FWO best practice guide; Full bench majority rejects union costs bid in Etheridge case; and Unions join with Australian Conservation Foundation in workplace-based climate campaign.
University of Sydney Professor of Law Ron McCallum has predicted the ILO will find the Fair Work Act fails to comply with its freedom of association and collective bargaining conventions and says Australia in the long run won’t be able to ignore it, in a speech in which he also argued Australian labour law has had a long and continuing “obsession” with fairness.
Four in every ten manufacturers in Denmark have made enterprise deals that provide “win-win” flexible working hours arrangements, according to a visiting academic, but the emergence of “flexitime jealousy” has diverted union delegates in some workplaces into mediating disputes between workers with access to flexibility and those without.
The LHMU (WA branch) was justified in sacking an organiser for telling a colleague she was an "a--e-licker" for having lunch with the union's secretary and calling senior officials "a bunch of f--kers", the WA IRC has found.
Fair Work Ombudsman Nick Wilson says he is confident his agency's intelligence-gathering and auditing activities will uncover any widespread unlawful use of individual flexibility agreements, despite the absence of any statutory obligations for employers to report they have used them.
