The fairness test knocked the harshest edges off the Work Choices agreement-making regime, particularly in non-union environments, the Workplace Research Centre says in the last edition of its 15-year-old ADAM report, which has been killed off by the Workplace Authority's late release of data.
The hospitality industry will continue pushing to trial a low-skilled guest worker program in hospitality, after the Federal Government yesterday announced a pilot scheme that is confined to the horticulture sector.
State and federal IR ministers to discuss substantive IR legislation, national IR system on Friday; Gillard's IR policy advisors move on; HR Nicholls' Day faces off against former Howard IR advisor in Makin contest
Three Sydney Water workers who were stood down then sacked after their managers, responding to a complaint, found them having a barbeque at one of their homes during work hours with beer on the table and beer bottles strewn around the yard have won their jobs back.
The tariff cuts scheduled for 2010 should proceed but the Federal Government should set up a new $2.5 billion fund to assist the automotive industry until 2020, according to the long-awaited Bracks report on the sector - which also warns that more needs to be done to encourage high-performance workplaces and cost-competitive supply chains.
Telstra had made detailed plans as far back as February to put non-union collective agreements to its employees, despite negotiating with the ACTU throughout May and June for a union agreement, according to internal company documents released by the peak union body today.
The Federal Court has found car parts company Tristar acted lawfully when it declined to retrench its remaining employees, despite them performing almost no meaningful work, and has criticised unions for using the workers as "foot soldiers" in a political campaign.
The NSW Supreme Court has barred a former executive from using "inside information" from his former employer and ruled that the 30-month restraint in his deed of release was reasonable.
