Collaborative IR and HR strategies established the foundation for the successful construction and running of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, according to a new book.
Qantas has begun softening its employees up for wage cuts due to the world aviation slump, increased insurance costs and competition from the lower-cost domestic airlines.
An ACTU-commissioned report has recommended the urgent adoption of European-style working hours regulations to address Australia's internationally unique conjunction of long hours and substantial unpaid overtime.
BHP Billiton has implemented a groundbreaking new global recruitment system that holds the promise of boosting the quality and reducing the cost of recruiting new employees.
In the first shots in the election campaign's IR policy contest, the Labor Party has announced plans for a $3.5m inquiry into work and life policy, with a brief that includes considering options for paid maternity leave.
Maintenance employees at Qantas' Sydney Jet Base are set to strike for 48 hours from Wednesday in a bid to pressure the airline to re-commence bargaining negotiations it suspended in the wake of uncertainty generated by the Ansett collapse.
The NSW IRC has found "too many doubts" that a dismissed employee knowingly received embezzled funds, but has upheld her sacking for storing and sending pornographic emails.
Some 800 workers at a multi-site printing and distribution operation have won an 8% pay increase over two years under the organisation's first national agreement, plus a substantially enhanced redundancy pay regime.
The Democrats have announced a radical new work-life policy that would provide incentives to redistribute hours from the overworked to the underworked and introduce 12 weeks paid maternity leave based on the federal minimum wage.
