After outsourcing a major part of their recruitment efforts, major employers in Australia - such as allfinanz company Suncorp - have begun reversing the process, according to the head of a recruitment management consulting company.
AIRC members should be reluctant to conduct conciliation during arbitration of unfair dismissal cases, a Federal Court bench has said today in upholding a finding of apprehended bias.
Qantas and the FAAA are meeting today in a bid to resolve their dispute over rewarding 4,500 long-haul flight attendants for productivity gains from crew reductions, amid union allegations that the airline is training a strike-breaking workforce.
The NSW IRC has recommended BHP Steel continue payroll deductions and not restrict union access to its Port Kembla site while further talks continue with the AWU over claims – by each side – that the site enterprise agreement is being breached.
The AMWU (Victorian branch) has sought a meeting next week with the state's auto components manufacturers in a further bid to secure common outcomes, as the official start to Campaign 2003 draws near.
The Federal Government will release all but the confidential volume of the Cole Royal Commission's final report on Wednesday, March 26 and Thursday, March 27.
A WA IRC full bench has confirmed the Commission has the discretion in unfair dismissal cases to order compensation for employees denied redundancy payments, even where they have no contractual entitlement.
The head of resources company, Newcrest Mining Ltd, has warned that there are "problems brewing" with the fly in, fly out roster system, which is in widespread use in remote workplaces.
The Queensland MBA and the state building industry unions have given themselves a few days off before restarting negotiations over implementing the 36-hour week.
The OECD has lauded the IR reforms Australia has undertaken over the past decade, but has urged further change to reduce the role of awards, cut transaction costs for individual agreements and address pattern bargaining.
