Awards and agreements would no longer be able to contain restrictions on the use of independent contractors or labour hire workers, under provisions that might be included in the Howard Government's legislation to shield independent contractors from regulation by the IR system.
The Howard Government has revealed it might amend the no disadvantage test in its forthcoming package of IR legislative change, while the Bracks Government says it is considering options available to it if Canberra's workplace law makeover is unacceptable.
A manager who poked a subordinate in the bum engaged in a deplorable IR exercise but shouldn't be blocked from working with children, a tribunal has ruled.
A child care centre was justified in dismissing its director for ignoring an instruction not to tell co-workers she had been threatened with dismissal, the Queensland IRC has found.
The AIRC has approved four separate agreements covering Pizza Hut outlets in Victoria - despite the fact that they initially provide below-award wages.
Up to 30,000 aged care nurses in NSW have won a 23% total pay increase from their special case pay claim, not far short of the nursing union's 27.5% target, after a NSW IRC full bench today granted a 12% rise.
A full bench Federal Court majority has found that variations to AWAs are unenforceable unless approved by the Employment Advocate, ruling that a Coastwatch pilot who broke her training bond does not have to repay her former employer $16,336.86.
If this week's ABS figures showing union membership in mining plummeting by almost 30% don't ring true, there's a simple explanation - they may not be.
The Government isn't considering stripping back awards to any less than 16 allowable matters, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews told the Sydney Institute last night.
