Public service commissioner John Lloyd has marked his departure with a blast for the union movement and "do-gooders", plus a joke about the controversy over his links to free market think-tank, the Institute of Public Affairs.
The AWU's Hair Stylists Australia has deployed its first paid organiser to tackle the "widespread cultural problem" of underpayments as the FWO pursues another hairdressing industry scalp on behalf of a teenage apprentice short-changed $14,500.
In a ruling criticising the practice of diplomats recruiting domestic workers from overseas, the FWC has ordered Iraq's consul-general to pay $20,000 to a Filipina live-in nanny dismissed after raising concerns about her entitlements.
BlueScope is seeking to bolster a proposed three-year agreement at its Port Kembla steel operations with a guaranteed $4000 pre-payment from a new profit share scheme.
The "relatively severe" decline in the labour share of GDP in Australia over the past 40 years "reflects the unique and relatively extreme history of neoliberalism here", according to a new paper by the Centre for Future Work's Jim Stanford.
United Voice has pledged to forge ahead with a community campaign to protect the job security of Lion's Castlemaine Perkins brewery workers, despite the FWC whacking it with new gag and restraint orders after declaring future industrial action non-protected.
A parliamentary committee in New Zealand is considering legislation to address "triangular" employment relationships by extending the coverage of collective agreements, at the same time as the ALP is preparing to ensure parity of pay and conditions for labour hire workers if it wins power at the next election.
The FWC for the second time in five weeks has warned of the serious potential consequences of signing statutory declarations in support of agreement approval applications without verifying the information.
The union leading the campaign against prospective job losses at a major brewery is at risk of being sidelined after the FWC found it "reached the line between [unacceptably careless disregard] and. . . deliberate non-compliance" in failing to communicate restraining notices to members.
