Queensland's newly-elected Newman Government has moved quickly to reshape its IR system but has stopped short of following the NSW Government's moves to control public sector wage fixation.
Minister signals possible delay in Fair Work Act review panel report; Vale Judith Cohen AO; Call for papers for Australian Labour Law Association conference; Academic appointment for Geoffrey Giudice; and Updated link to secure work report.
The Government and Opposition are on the wrong track in seeking to toughen registered organisations laws in the wake of the HSU governance scandal, and should instead rely on corporate law, according to AMMA.
It took 12 years for former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty to agree to front up to a tribute dinner from the union movement he led from 1983 to 2000, but it finally happened last night, bringing if not together then into the same room two former Labor prime ministers.
NSW public school teachers to stop work tomorrow, Victoria expected to follow next month; Public sector pay growth slips to 11-year low; ABS to axe labour price index, maintain wage price index; and ACTU secure work report now available.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has told unions that they have never been more relevant, and maintained it was a conservative "fantasy" and "lie" that the economy would benefit if they and the Fair Work Act were both killed off.
Productivity improvements and better investment returns will not be delivered by a simple change to legislation, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten said today in response to BHP Billiton chair Jac Nasser’s call for the Federal Government to ensure the Fair Work Act review sets up Australia’s long-term economic future.
The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal has upheld an employee's right to have her workplace discrimination claim fully heard rather than have some of them struck out on the application of her employer.
The Queensland Government has been denied a request for legal representation in a case involving alleged victimisation of an employee who made a bullying complaint, but it can have a government legal officer represent it.
