Most people who are dissatisfied with their working hours soon find a happier arrangement but over-employment remains persistent for more than 8% of Australian workers, according to unpublished findings from the latest phase of the HILDA survey.
Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited will today seek individual orders from the Federal Court against more than 300 maintenance workers to force them to end a strike that started on Tuesday at its Altona manufacturing facility. However, it says the stoppage and a picket line is yet to affect production.
Australian pay movements - forecast to shrink from 1% ahead of inflation to just 0.5% ahead - are lagging behind those of other countries such as the UK, US and China, according to a global survey by Mercer HR consulting.
The AIRC has upheld the dismissal of a male Foxtel call centre team leader who sent what was intended to be a humorous reply to another male team leader's sexual fantasy email about a female employee.
The AMMA has written to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews seeking exemption from prosecution for companies that fail to comply with Work Choices' onerous record keeping obligation but are clearly not underpaying their workers.
The NSW IRC has wide discretion to make conditional reinstatement orders, even to the point of requiring an employee to abstain from alcohol during and after working hours and submit to a rigorous drug testing regime, a full bench has ruled.
Using Pacific Islanders as guest workers in Australia would have negligible impact on the Pacific region, but could have high economic and social costs at home, a Centre for Independent Studies paper maintains.
