Australia might need to adopt part of New Zealand's good faith bargaining model, if Australia's version encourages "surface bargaining" and parties find they can't conclude agreements, according to a new paper by CPSU researchers.
HR practitioners don't see themselves as having a strategic role in driving environmental sustainability within their organisations - indeed they believe environmental improvement initiatives will be taken more seriously if initiated outside the HR department, according to a new university study.
A full bench of the Federal Court has dismissed the University of Western Australia's claim on the rights to a cancer treatment developed by its former professor of surgery, ruling there was no implied term in his contract of employment that gave it ownership of his inventions.
The Federal Court has rejected an ABCC bid for an injunction against the CFMEU after the union promised to comply with an earlier FWA order; and a labour-hire company has been fined for lodging an enterprise agreement for certification without having employees vote to approve the deal.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended award modernisation against accusations from unions and employer groups that their members will be disadvantaged despite proposed transitional arrangements.
The Federal Government has effectively set a 3% cap on annual pay rises across the Australian public service over the next two years under a new bargaining framework that also, for the first time, enshrines workplace delegates' rights.
Changes to key entitlements including wages, casual and part-time loadings and penalty rates in many modern awards will be deferred until mid-2010 to help employers cope with new phasing-in arrangements, the AIRC has ruled.
The High Court has upheld an employee's appeal and ordered the AIRC to reconsider his case after finding successive tribunals and courts wrongly applied the doctrine of repudiation in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.
