Mining sector workers' share of the industry's income has dropped from 30% to 20% over the past 20 years, while the industry’s cash flow (after operating costs) nearly doubled between 2006 and 2012, according to a CFMEU-commissioned report.
NSW Public Service Commissioner Graeme Head is seeking to determine why 30% of NSW public sector employees report being bullied in the workplace and almost 50% say they have witnessed it, despite the implementation of a wide range of prevention and management measures.
Employer organisations and unions will have difficulty attracting and retaining officials if the Government fails to substantially amend the proposed disclosure obligations in its Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013, the AiG has warned.
A Fair Work Commission full bench majority has urged DP World to address an "anti-dobbing" culture that contributed to its failure to curb a supervisor's bullying behaviour, in a decision upholding the company's dismissal of a subordinate he goaded into assaulting him.
Shadow workplace minister to speak in Melbourne next week; Academics to present study findings in final FWC lecture for 2013; NSW IR Society to recognise retiring tribunal members; Dispute resolution expert among keynote speakers for AIRAANZ conference; Leigh Clifford to address HR Nicholls Society dinner; Giudice to moderate Ron McCallum debate on Thursday; and ALERA national conference on Gold Coast next year.
Master Builders Australia has argued that the Abbott Government should extend the prohibition of unlawful industrial action to union officials in its ABCC legislation, while unions have blasted the Bill's retrospective operation, in submissions to the Senate Education and Employment Committee.
The Coalition is likely to make a submission on the childcare equal pay case currently before the Fair Work Commission and has privately invited some stakeholders for input on the terms of reference for the Productivity Commission's IR inquiry, a Senate Estimates committee has heard.
A 64-year-old engineer who claims her employer took unlawful adverse action when it sacked her because of her absence on sick leave and her age has failed in a Federal Court bid to temporarily halt her dismissal.
Queensland's parliament has passed IR laws that introduce NES-style minimum standards, an award modernisation process and fixed bargaining conciliation and arbitration timeframes, but which unions and Labor describe as "Work Choices for Queensland".
