Articles in the Workers Rights Category
The Acting DPM has brushed aside union threats to mount a case against her workplace reforms in the world’s top labour forum the ILO, when she knows her Fair Work Bill is in breach of …
On Monday, 27 October, a floor collapsed during construction of an office block in Canberra’s CBD. Such assaults were nothing new for the lead contractor, Leighton.
Union officials pointed to the 70-hour weeks being demanded by …
Rudderless in a Sea of Choices The Defeat of Your Rights At Work—Analysis and a Possible Response by Harry Glasbeek
The Federal government has laid out its proposals to revamp the federal industrial relations regime. We …
The “Fair” Work Bill: Devils in the details Being dismissed through redundancy.
A minimalist reform, already practiced by reasonable employers, is a requirement to notify redundancies to Centrelink section 530 and the union. Employers dismissing workers …
WorkChoices unfair restrictions on the right to strike is retained in the ‘Fair’ Work Bill. The analysis I presented posted under the heading of ‘right to strike’ applies, see feature ‘Government to deny the …
Professor Keith Ewing, UK and international labour law expert, compares and contrasts labour law reforms bewteen UK in the Blair years and Australia’s proposed Fair Work Australia. Catalyst and AIER had Professor Ewing addressing meetings …
