Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has attacked the credibility of a national study launched today finding low-paid women are vulnerable to exploitation under Work Choices, saying it was carried out before the fairness test changes and was methodologically flawed.
The high debt levels carried by working families, in league with the work-life collision, has put them on a "knife edge" that explains their rejection of Work Choices, according to Sydney University Dean of Law, Ron McCallum.
The Econtech report the ACCI commissioned to bolster its campaign against dismantling IR reform does not compare the Coalition and ALP’s policies but rather puts a cost on abolishing all IR change since 1993 – which includes the Keating Government’s shift to enterprise bargaining.
BDW's Broderick to be new federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner; Victorian nurses to meet over 6% pay claim against State Government; and Employers risk losing staff over work/life balance, study finds.
The Workplace Relations Fact Sheet that employers are obliged to supply employees entrenches in Australian law the concept of "informational rights" and is sure to be the foundation for further developments under a future Labor government, Flinders University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart, told a conference today. He also labelled the Work Choices procedures a "national disgrace".
The AIRC has decided to order a controversial abattoir company to pay $13,316 to an unfairly dismissed meat process worker who had sought only $5,634 in unpaid severance and lieu of notice entitlements.
The Howard Government has taken credit for the sharp decline in industrial action in the past decade, but data presented by a senior AIRC member shows the same trend has occurred in other OECD countries.
The NSW Government is planning to appoint constitutional lawyer Professor George Williams to develop options for a new national IR system based on a cooperative federal model in a bid to influence a Rudd Labor Government’s IR plans.
Victorian police officers could begin imposing a range of lawful bans from late next week, after almost 99% of police who took part in a strike ballot voted it up.
