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A Sydney academic has proposed making greater use of the Trade Practices Act to address unfair employment practices, arguing that doing so was appropriate given employers and employees were encouraged under federal IR law to "treat their exchanges as commercial contracts".

The Howard Government's legislative bid to stop employees of constitutional corporations from accessing state unfair dismissal regimes could be the beginning of the end of IR regulation by the states, according to Sydney University's Professor Ron McCallum.

In a surprising statistic, the University of Melbourne's Professor Mark Wooden claims that more than half of workers who are casual remain so by choice, and could convert to permanent status if they wanted.

Employers have increased their spending on training by 22% per employee since 1996, according to new ABS data.

Queensland IRC includes AWA rates in certified agreement; Greens urge adoption of 18 weeks paid parental leave; and Della Bosca retains IR portfolio in NSW.

The employee relations manager of one of Australia's largest labour hire companies, Adecco, has supported further regulation of the industry - and spoken out against the concept of joint employment.

The AWU is "very concerned" at the implications of an AIRC decision which rejected an unfair dismissal action by six scaffolders against their labour hire employer.

In a critical ruling, the Federal Court has found it has the power to imply terms into certified agreements.

The Interim Building Taskforce has launched another prosecution, while it is preparing another eight cases for the courts and considering another two.

The AIRC has ruled that even though a Telstra call centre employee was "habitually negligent" at work, the telco was wrong to summarily dismiss her because it failed to consider that its own inadequate IT system contributed to her conduct.