A Parliamentary inquiry into the issue of pay equity has recommended the establishment of a special Pay Equity Unit within the Government’s …
A Parliamentary inquiry into the issue of pay equity has recommended the establishment of a special Pay Equity Unit within the Government’s …
The industrial relations umpire Fair Work Australia’s decision to make a major last-minute change to the new modern award covering over one …
The chief executive of conglomerate Wesfarmers, which owns the Coles and Bunnings brands, has expressed concerns that the Rudd Government’s …
The Fair Work Ombudsman will join airline Qantas in seeking financial penalties against the Transport Workers Union and four of its official…
Businesses are being forced to pay money for employees to leave a company under the Federal Government’s new Fair Work industrial relations …
Harmonisation has a benign sound. However, the reality is something entirely different. The Model Act, if not amended will become law in Dec…
One of the first unfair dismissal cases under the new Fair Work Act suggests employers who find themselves appearing before an unfair dismis…
Much has been written already on this website about the changes to industrial relations regulation in Australia: let’s face it there’s plent…
The Fair Work Act was unashamedly drafted to play the unions back into the industrial game. And it did this with a vengeance. In the last tw…
The Federal Government’s new Fair Work Ombudsman has its first target – employers that discriminate against women returning from maternity l…
Fair Work Australia has, almost inevitably, confirmed that it is virtually impossible for employers to negotiate collective agreements direc…
The Victorian manufacturing sector looms as a flashpoint in the latest battles between employers and workers under the Rudd Government’s new…
