Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Senator Eric Abetz has called for the Government to split the FWO into two and to amend the Fair Work Act to require FWA members to resign their memberships of political parties and unions/employer associations.
Howard Government Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith has urged the Coalition to take a comprehensive IR plan that includes individual contracts to the next election to ensure it has a mandate if it wins, while advising that it would be sensible for an Abbott Government to start with "incremental" change.
FWA decisions are encouraging unions to strike rather than negotiate, while some unions are inappropriately using the protected action ballot process as a publicity tool, according to Qantas's executive manager of IR, Sue Bussell.
The ABCC has been “transformed” into the TBCC, the “Trendy Building and Construction Commission”, under its new leadership, according to its former head, John Lloyd.
Bass Strait strikers return to job, as company goes after AWU and delegates; Unions make 7%-a-year pay claim at Toyota; TNT Express workers win 4% annual pay rise; and Jetstar's response to "toughen up" email disturbing, says AIPA.
The German "internal adjustment" model of labour market regulation was much more successful in weathering the global financial crisis than the Danish "flexicurity" model or the UK's flexible system, a global employment relations conference has heard.
Harmers Workplace Lawyers told the NSW Supreme Court yesterday it couldn't rule out pursuing contempt proceedings against its former managing partner, Joydeep Hor, for allegedly breaching a non-compete court order, after allegations emerged that Hor was acting for one of Harmers' clients, Channel 7 executive James Warburton.
United Voice (formerly the LHMU) is challenging in both the Federal Court and Fair Work Australia the Spotless Group's "rollout" to cleaners of individual flexibility arrangements, maintaining it amounts to adverse action.
