The Australian Industry Group is calling for changes to the Federal Government's Independent Contractors legislation to remove exemptions for state government laws on owner drivers and soften penalties for "misrepresentation" of employment contracts.
PM's "further reforms" comments didn't refer to IR, says office; OWS targets clothing trades industry; and Work Choices will increase disparity between regions, says Crean.
The administrators of struggling car parts maker Huon Corporation will have their claim for properties held by former company identities mediated under an order of the Victorian Supreme Court.
The Australian Government should provide $1 billion additional manufacturing assistance to head-off the 200,000 job losses that are otherwise likely to occur in the sector by 2020, according to a report by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research.
Striking car part workers at Huon Corporation are likely to return to work by mid-morning today following the agreement of major customers to a rescue plan, unions say.
Major Australian car makers baulked at signing a rescue package for parts maker Huon Corporation last night, continuing a strike at its Victorian operations and threatening further stand downs, including in the South Australian car industry.
More than 500 striking workers at Huon's Bendigo and Frankston plants in Victoria have voted to return to work tomorrow conditional upon seven car manufacturing and components companies agreeing to new order contracts.
Fair Pay Commission chair Ian Harper has today played down the significance of research on links between employment levels and minimum wages that the AFPC commissioned from the University of Canberra's labour economist Professor Phil Lewis.
The ACCI has today adopted a new 10-point skilled migration policy, with its general council at the same time calling on the ALP to drop key planks of its IR policy, including abolishing AWAs.
