ACTU secretary and ALP candidate Greg Combet has today highlighted an employer's alleged refusal to negotiate a collective agreement, as a new union survey shows that voters support laws to overcome bargaining impasses.
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Victorian IR Minister Rob Hulls says he has received legal advice that another loophole in the Federal Government's new fairness test leaves exposed more than 350,000 state workers not employed by constitutional corporations.
Federal system employers must answer relevant questions as well as provide documents to union officials inspecting workplaces for suspected breaches of a State OHS law, the AIRC has ruled.
Mining employers have rated the Coalition's Work Choices laws a high distinction but says Labor’s Forward with Fairness IR policy is a failure, after testing them against seven criteria.
The AFPC is planning detailed analysis of the effects of its minimum wage rulings after commissioning two consultants' reports that recommend new pay monitoring models.
Two executives who were the "commercial face" of a high-tech company that was developing an electronic program guide for internet television have been restrained by the NSW Supreme Court, after it found it seriously arguable that they breached their non-solicitation clauses by consulting to a competitor.
The subclass 457 temporary business employee visa scheme should be better enforced to avoid exploitation of vulnerable migrants, according to a report released today by the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate, Tony Lawrence.
After just a week of administering the fairness test, the Workplace Authority has stopped requiring employers to complete an "additional information form" of three to seven pages when they lodge an AWA or collective agreement.
It is "simply not credible" to claim that removing AWAs would damage the highly profitable mining industry, according to a visiting economist from the Canadian Auto Workers Union.
