The ACTU has started showing more television advertisements, like this one (warning: rude words): Wait, that’s not the right one — but it is great! Anyway, here’s one of the real ads: There’s another, more recent ad called Boys in the Boardroom, but I can’t find a clip online yet. It looks like there’s a [...]
There was a flurry of coverage last week of an academic paper presented by Professor David Peetz. In Brave New Work Choices (pdf), Peetz argues that WorkChoices has led to a loss of conditions, lower wages, and no discernable productivity increase. He says women have been hit hard, taking a pay cut even as businesses [...]
If you visit the employment law page of Connor Hunter Law Firm, here’s what you see: The terms of employment are equally important to employer and employee alike. Striking the balance to be fair to both parties can be difficult. We can help employers and employees negotiate a fair and reasonable employment contract. That sounds [...]
The Australian‘s economics correspondent reports the latest ABS wage statistics: Growth in wages remains surprisingly modest, despite widespread shortages of skilled labour and unemployment falling to historic low levels. Average weekly earnings rose at an annual rate of only 2.8 per cent in the year to August, the lowest increase in seven years. … ABN [...]
Labor’s collective bargaining policy, which will be slightly different to the one proposed by the ACTU, will enshrine the right to a collective agreement if a majority of workers votes for one. It will give the staff in a workplace the choice between a collective agreement, or individual agreements, by a fair vote overseen by [...]
If you thought my post yesterday about Queensland Labor’s focus group research was wishful thinking (punters were raising IR unprompted, and were “pissed off”), it’s been confirmed by independent research (read it at LP) conducted by the National Forum: Right at the start of the focus group, before any issues or leadership images had been [...]
The Australian‘s campaign of IR lies continues today, with an utterly disgraceful article. Here’s how it starts: Workers lose $27 a week Cath Hart and Ewin Hannan WORKERS following Kim Beazley’s advice to reject Australian Workplace Agreements lost $27 a week after a stationery company offering the contracts abandoned its plans for further change. How [...]
