Employment Minister Mathias Cormann has let the cat out of the bag. The government has been trying to supress wages.
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Businesses and workers are at the mercy of mega-corporations.
McCormack must live in a parallel universe if he ever thought Broad’s account of flying off on an overseas date, followed by an apparent move to extract money from him, was just “a personal matter”.
In the lead up to next week’s ALP national conference, which Shorten
needs to run smoothly, the government has been trying to exploit what
it sees as a Labor weak point – border protection.
Necessity and desperation are portrayed as the prime motivators of innovative behaviour, but in reality, stability and holistic incentives go a long way to freeing up creative energy.
There are 750,000 fewer workers under enterprise agreements now than when the Coalition was elected, McManus says in her speech to the John Curtin Research Centre.
Brendan O'Connor on Labor’s industrial relations agenda
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O'Connor says Labor remains totally opposed to the government's Ensuring Integrity legislation, which the Coalition wants to resurrect. "I can't see this bill in any way being salvageable."
Tech companies overseas are signing collective agreements with their employees. Might Australia be next?
Human Resources must adapt quickly to changes in the workplace to remain relevant and useful.
Even with the most favourable laws, unions will still need to confront the reality of a dramatic transformation in the world of work.
The arrival of Amazon in Australia may signal a change in how we navigate industrial relations and workers rights.
Professional sports is bucking major trends in industrial relations, such as a marked decline in both union membership and industrial disputes over recent decades.
Today’s manifestations of the gig economy are tilted in favour of too few beneficiaries, and are not built to last.
A study shows the reality of gig worker experiences is far more nuanced than enjoying flexible work or being exploited.
Cricket has experienced its fair share of industrial drama over the years – and the 2017 dispute looks like a re-run of a brawl that enveloped the sport in Australia 20 years ago.
A major shift to an industrial relations model that benefits all parties will only happen with the utmost co-operation of Australian workers, unions and – most crucially – employers.
Even though enterprise bargaining agreements proved controversial when introduced, their use is actually in decline today.
A group of experts dissect what the re-introduction of the ABCC means for the construction industry and its workers.
It’s uncommon internationally for workers to have a statutory right to paid domestic violence leave, but things may be shifting.
Miners were among the first workers to organise into trade unions from the middle of the 1700s, battling a lack of legal recognition and resistance from the mine owners.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Labour Law, University of Sydney
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Associate Tutor, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Work and Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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ARC Future Fellow 2012-2016, School of Business, University of Sydney
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Affiliate Researcher, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, UTS Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Monash Business School, Department of Management, Monash University