The Business Coalition for Workplace Reform has confirmed one of its pro-Work Choices television advertisements is no longer on air after media reports alleging two actors portraying union thugs in the commercial were criminals.
Beazley criticises "employing class", as he says goodbye to politics; Contract cleaners also give up on AWAs; AIRC defines "conditions of employment" narrowly; and Vale, Tony McIntyre.
The DEWR has released the latest of its biennial reports on agreement-making under federal IR laws, but the ALP has already criticised some of its key findings and maintained the department "set out to deceive".
The Howard Government’s advertising campaign on the fairness test has backfired, with a third of those who’ve seen it saying they feel less favourable towards Work Choices, according to the ACTU’s pollster.
75% of maximum penalty for employer who threatened to turn workplace into concentration camp; CPSU and NAA agree to change agreement's duration, after DEWR objection; New deal takes effect for Murray Goulburn Water; and Rudd says Hendy a Liberal Party operative, but denies seeking his removal.
The Queensland Supreme Court has awarded costs against a mining labour hire company after it dropped its case for injunctions stopping two former employees from working for a competitor during the notice period of their resignations.
After years of trying, the Federal Government appears set to extend the ACCC's powers to legally represent businesses seeking damages against unions for secondary boycotts after the ALP indicated it would support the legislation.
The AIRC has again refused an application by the AMWU for a strike ballot at a Queensland construction project because the workers are already covered by an AWU greenfields agreement.
After a year of being attacked by the ALP and defended by the Coalition, one of the first big companies to take up Work Choices’ minimum-conditions AWAs - retail chain Spotlight - was today again the focus of the IR debate after revealing it was abandoning individual contracts and talking to the SDA about a collective union deal. This time, however, it was Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey who was criticising the company, while it received sympathy from the ALP.
