The CEO of Qantas, Geoff Dixon, yesterday acknowledged that the airline's hard-line IR agenda meant it was effectively caught in the global "race to the bottom", but maintained there were no other choices.
Australia's recent economic growth was achieved on the back of inequality and work intensification, with economic risk shifted directly onto employees, according to secretary of the ACTU, Greg Combet.
Consent deal struck in child care pay equity/work value case; Westpac head calls for business to work on boosting labour participation rate; and AMWU rubbishes AIG claims about today's metals stoppage.
A new critique of business management blames soaring salaries for captains of industry on a "cult of the CEO" that wrongly assumes they can be the sole author of a company's fortunes.
A 24-hour stoppage across the Victorian metals manufacturing sector in support of the Campaign 2003 claim will proceed tomorrow, after the AIG failed in a last-minute bid in the AIRC today to halt it.
A senior NSW IRC member has upheld the State Attorney-General's Department's sacking of a senior employee for sexual harassment of a new recruit, but criticised it for failing to address a workplace culture that was pre-occupied with sex.
