It's a substantial change to the Work Choices bill, but one the Federal Government drew no attention to: under the 90-day rule for unilateral agreement termination, workers will now fall back on a much higher safety net than just the AFPC.
Unions are likely to increase shareholder-based activism as their legal influence is eroded by the Work Choices legislation and planned changes to the corporations law to restrict the calling of company meetings, according to a new academic study.
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Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon expects to use existing employment arrangements at Jetstar as the basis for engaging workers for the airline's new international arm.
The AIRC has issued a s127 order barring the CFMEU's WA construction branch from taking further industrial action on the $325m inner-city section of Perth's new 80km rail line, in a ruling that confirms Australian Building and Construction Commissioner John Lloyd can intervene virtually unfettered in construction-related tribunal proceedings.
The Work Choices legislation has passed Parliament this morning, after the House of Representatives accepted the amendments made in the Senate on Friday.
A Senate committee has this afternoon expressed outrage at the "extravagant" $55m publicly-funded "propaganda" campaign for Work Choices that aimed to expose each Australian to 29 television advertisements.
The Work Choices legislation protects employers from the harsh sanctions unions will be exposed to for unlawful industrial action by limiting the definition of employer industrial action to lockouts only, a paper shows.
The membership of the Victorian nurses' union has grown substantially over the past decade, largely due to the union's strong leadership and its ability to protect members' professional status, according to a new university study.
The ALP is to establish a nine-member IR taskforce to continue its campaign against the Coalition's second-wave laws over the parliamentary Christmas break and into next year.
