The MBA has called for even tougher right of entry laws, an expanded role for the ABCC, a prohibition on unions initiating independent contractor prosecutions and the conversion of the construction sector code of practice and guidelines into regulations, in its IR blueprint released today.
The Federal Court has ordered a Tasmanian hotel group to pay a $170,000 penalty, after finding it engaged in deliberate, reprehensible conduct when it applied duress in a bid to force vulnerable employees to sign AWAs that cut their pay.
Employers are using template non-union collective agreements under Work Choices to strip away conditions and cut pay by up to 18% in retail and 12% in hospitality, according to comprehensive analysis released today by the Workplace Research Centre.
Victoria Police and the state Police Association have today agreed in principle to a settlement of the state's long-running pay dispute, but both sides differed on the full extent of wage rises under the new enterprise agreement.
The subclass 457 temporary skilled migration visa scheme should be toughened to eliminate abuses, including by a new complaints mechanism and reviews of training compliance and the adequacy of Regional Certifying Bodies, according to the unanimous recommendations of a Federal Parliamentary inquiry released today.
Australian company directors rank employee interests only slightly below those of shareholders – unlike their US counterparts, according to a new Melbourne University survey of 375 directors from a range of industries.
Work Choices is based on outmoded policy foundations that have been abandoned by the OECD and IMF, according to a visiting Harvard labour market economist.
Howard says he’ll stay and fight; Both sides trade blows on IR after Howard acknowledges Work Choices unnerved voters; and Senior NAB employee can lodge unfair dismissal claim.
The Federal Magistrate’s Court has fined as an individual the director of a company that has now gone into liquidation for underpaying four printers brought to Australia from China on subclass s457 visas, and has also recorded a criminal conviction against him for attempting to obstruct a workplace inspector’s investigation.
