A Federal Court full bench today quashed an AIRC full bench finding that a former Defence Department contractor was an employee for the purposes of an unfair dismissal claim.
The building industry taskforce intends to use its new coercive powers to reopen investigations previously closed because of a lack of evidence, its second yearly report reveals.
CFMEU seeks compensation for high fuel prices; Ratio of HR practitioners to employees on the rise; and Telstra unions to run campaign against job and service cuts.
The NZ National Party will reinstate parts of its radical deregulatory 1991 Employment Contracts Act - which became a model for the radical Kennett and Court IR reforms in 1992 and 1993 - if it takes office on September 17.
University deal is one of first to comply with HEWRRs, says union; Only 16% of employers have mature-age workers policy; US statistics bureau reveals 10 most dangerous jobs; and unions say Liberals, not taxpayers, should pay for advertising campaign for second wave IR changes.
John Lloyd, currently a senior member of the AIRC, will head up the new construction watchdog, the Australian Building & Construction Commission, which starts operating on October 1. Current building taskforce director Nigel Hadgkiss will be one of Lloyd's two deputies.
Review FBT concessions, salary sacrifice arrangements for cars, says bipartisan report; Counter-offers driving up HR salaries, say recruiters; UK employers employ new strategies to beat long hours cultures; Address diabetes and other lifestyle diseases to increase labour force participation, says Treasury paper; and Prisoner not an employee, says AIRC.
CFMEU WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald has today been convicted for assaulting a BGC OHS manager when he entered a Perth building site after a crane fell into a hole.
Some 4,000 childcare workers in South Australia have won substantial pay increases, after the State IRC accepted their work value had increased substantially.
A Federal Court full bench has ordered the Victorian Government to hand over tender documents to a Building Industry Taskforce investigation of an alleged FOA breach, in a ruling that confirms the broad powers of industrial inspectors to demand the production of documents.
