Blue-collar employees will increasingly have to complete psychometric tests before taking up jobs, as such testing programs migrate out of their white-collar domain.
Employers recruiting new workers will have to come to grips with the new "consumer mentality" among jobhunters if they want to attract the best people, according to a US journal.
Labour productivity growth in the retail sector rocketed ahead at 3.5% a year in the '90s after going backwards in the '80s, according to a research paper released today.
Directors and senior executives of corporations found to have committed industrial manslaughter in Victoria face imprisonment and large fines, under a draft bill released by the State Government today.
Car manufacturers appear to have stymied a multi-million dollar backpay claim by unions, following an IRC full bench ruling that varies industry awards.
An important test case in Queensland's Court of Appeal has confirmed an injured worker's spouse is not able to claim damages for loss of consortium under the State's new workers' compensation legislation.
Metal unions have again withdrawn their bargaining notices for employers involved in the Ai Group's bid to suspend Campaign 2000 bargaining periods, prompting the IRC to seek submissions about whether the case can proceed.
About 1,500 construction workers on more than 20 sites in and around Brisbane will stop work next Thursday over what unions maintain is Alstom Power's use - in conjunction with the AWU - of federal IR laws to "slash" wages on a Queensland Government project.
The ALP in WA may have held out against the union movement's push to remove statutory individual contracts from the State, but its IR blueprint commits it to attempting to turn back the deregulatory tide in all other key IR areas if elected to office.
