How often in union negotiations around an enterprise agreement does the union refuse to negotiate with a company official, complaining that …
How often in union negotiations around an enterprise agreement does the union refuse to negotiate with a company official, complaining that …
Hi Aunty, We have two full-time employees, one of whom has just been diagnosed with glandular fever. He may be off work for six to eight we…
Businesses are being forced to pay money for employees to leave a company under the Federal Government’s new Fair Work industrial relations …
Hi Aunty B, An interesting one (please keep me anonymous of course). I have just joined a business two months ago and one of the guys I…
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…
Fair Work Australia has, almost inevitably, confirmed that it is virtually impossible for employers to negotiate collective agreements direc…
The industrial landscape changed on 1 July 2009 with the new Fair Work Act (FWA). It will change further on 1 January 2010 when the NES and …
For those employers engaged in negotiations for a collective agreement or enterprise bargain, there has been some quiet anticipation of what…
The Fair Work Act will have unexpected consequences for employers around their usual negotiations with employees and prospective employees, …
A survey of 1,002 human resources managers has found that 57% believe the Rudd Government’s new Fair Work industrial relations regime will r…
As the Australian Industrial Relations Commission finalises its statutory function of the award modernisation process, employers should prep…
The Fair Work Act regime is officially in place, at least in part. Employers will have to focus more on what this actually means for their b…
