In a blow to the NSW Labor Council's Secure Employment Test Case, State IR Minister John Della Bosca will oppose the NSW IRC amending all State awards to limit the use of casuals, labour hire employees and contractors.
The AWU, CEPU and AMWU are seeking an urgent Federal Court hearing for an injunction against the lockout of 300 construction workers on Esso's Bass Strait oil and gas rigs.
The ACTU says the Howard Government's plan to legislate away the new rights to severance pay for employees of small businesses is a wrong-headed, kneejerk reaction. (Please note: This is a re-send of an article uploaded last night.)
The ACTU says the Howard Government's plan to legislate away the new rights to severance pay for employees of small businesses is a wrong-headed, kneejerk reaction.
In an important decision on strike pay, the NSW IRC has ordered contractors on a Sydney hospital refurbishment site to pay wages to workers who walked off the job in 2001 over concerns about lead contamination - despite their industrial action breaching the project award's dispute resolution provisions.
Three out of four fathers with access to family-friendly provisions in the workplace are opting against taking advantage of career breaks, parental leave, or part-time work, a new report has found.
It might be a barbecue stopper in Australia, but in the UK the work/life balance has been the source of a lot of action as well as talk, with a UK academic describing the pace of change there as "dizzying" since the Blair Government came to power.
The President of the AIRC, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has again spoken out in favour of rationalising and simplifying Australia's industrial laws, saying the existing system advantaged the party with the greater resources.
Patrick Stevedores faces substantial penalties and legal costs, after the NSW IRC (in Court Session) today found it guilty of five breaches of the NSW OHS Act over the work practices it introduced on its giant straddle cranes immediately after the 1998 waterfront dispute.
Amendments to workplace legislation in the ACT are making waves at federal level, with Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews introducing legislation to shield federal agencies from the Territory's new industrial manslaughter laws and the Federal Opposition ruling out support for the introduction of portable long service leave.