More than 2.4 million Australians now work more than 45 hours a week, a 76% increase since 1981, according to a new report prepared for the ACTU's reasonable hours test case.
Working hours haven't accelerated in the past six to seven years and unpaid overtime has declined, according to research commissioned for the ACCI's counterclaim to the ACTU's reasonable hours test case.
A Federal Court full bench has upheld a finding that the Queensland BLF and one of its organisers breached freedom of association laws when it threatened industrial action if three carpenters refused to become members.
The NSW IRC has reinstated a dismissed worker after taking into account his intention to remove the key source of conflict with his employer by resigning as a union delegate.
Australia's rapid uptake of information and communications technology provided one-third of the record labour productivity growth of the 1990s, according to a new report by the Productivity Commission.
In an important test case, the Queensland IRC has ruled that commission on sales should not be included in "annual wages" for determining whether workers are able to take unfair dismissal actions.
Despite strongly criticising the way two long-serving employees were dismissed, the Queensland IRC has rejected an application for a time extension for them to bring an unfair dismissal action.
Right-wing think-tank the Institute of Public Affairs has launched its new IR research unit with the release of a report claiming an anti-industry coalition of unions and other pressure groups is destroying the textile industry.
