The announcement that inspectors from the Fair Work Ombudsman are planning to conduct 50,000 workplace visits – including 26,000 this year…
The announcement that inspectors from the Fair Work Ombudsman are planning to conduct 50,000 workplace visits – including 26,000 this year…
If you’ve just arrived back from work after the New Year’s break, then welcome to a brave new industrial relations world. The second tr…
With only two days left until Christmas, businesses are either closing down or bracing themselves for the rest of the holiday season. But ma…
Opposition workplace relations spokesman Eric Abertz has accused Deputy Prime Minster Julia Gillard of “blatant hypocrisy” after it was reve…
Thousands of Australia Post workers will take industrial action in every state except South Australia in one of the biggest national strikes…
While many experts have argued the Rudd Government’s Fair Work industrial relations regime has tipped the balance of power towards unions, a…
How often in union negotiations around an enterprise agreement does the union refuse to negotiate with a company official, complaining that …
When you come back to work in the New Year, you could be in for a rude shock – Australia’s workplace laws are set to change again on Janua…
New Liberal leader Tony Abbott has stepped up his attack on the Rudd Government’s new industrial relations regime, declaring that the Coalit…
In less than a month, Australia’s industrial relations laws will undergo the second big change in six months, with the introduction of the R…
Not long after the introduction of the Keating Government’s 1993 Industrial Relations Reform legislation, the then Minister, Laurie Brereton…
The last few months have evidenced a new determination by the unions to press an old agenda in Enterprise Agreement making. The key el…