A fourth-term Howard Government would introduce a standalone Independent Contractors Act to prevent independent contractors from being regulated by the federal IR system, PM John Howard announced yesterday.
It is only a matter of time before a court of record accepts the concept of joint employment in a labour hire situation, while the fledgling concept could in future be used more widely to secure employee entitlements during strategic insolvencies, the conference heard today.
Work has changed in such significant and relevant ways that it is now strongly arguable that childcare and travel to and from work should be tax deductible, a Sydney conference has heard.
Breastfeeding has been a casualty of the clear precedence given in Australia to OHS over anti-discrimination obligations, the ALLA conference heard today.
Employment law has failed to keep pace with the challenges thrown up by the "new deal at work" that has slashed employees' job tenure and job security, leading US employment lawyer Katherine Stone told a conference today.
The CFMEU construction division's leadership across all states has been returned virtually unopposed, while the division's national office has emerged from the Cole Royal Commission with a healthy surplus of $1.8m.
Large corporations are expecting to pay their employees remuneration increases ranging from 4.2% for operations/support staff to 4.4% for senior executives this year, according to a survey of employee benefits.
Employers would need advanced authorisation from a regulator before they could monitor or conduct surveillance on their employees under one of two options on workplace privacy put forward by the Victorian Law Reform Commission today.
The AIRC would have the power to make orders to change the ratio of casuals to permanents in awards and agreements, under the Greens' casual employment policy, launched today in Wollongong.
The AIG has today asked the AIRC to refer the certification of a food manufacturer's enterprise agreement to a full bench, in a bid to resolve questions about what can lawfully be included in agreements following the High Court's September 2 Electrolux decision.
