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Acting PM backs business.
Tuesday, 30 Dec, 2008 – 1:29 | No Comment
Acting PM backs business.

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 …

Leighton: Gillard’s honourable men
Tuesday, 16 Dec, 2008 – 17:12 | No Comment
Leighton: Gillard’s honourable men

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
Monday, 1 Dec, 2008 – 5:21 | No Comment
Rudderless in a Sea of Choices: The Defeat of Your Rights At Work

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 …

Being dismissed - “Fair” Work Bill: Devils in the details
Thursday, 27 Nov, 2008 – 18:55 | No Comment
Being dismissed - “Fair” Work Bill: Devils in the details

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 …

Labor keeps WorkChoices restrictions on the right to strike
Tuesday, 25 Nov, 2008 – 16:32 | No Comment
Labor keeps WorkChoices restrictions on the right to strike

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 …

Ewing advice on labour law
Sunday, 23 Nov, 2008 – 23:16 | No Comment
Ewing advice on labour law

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 …