A Senate committee has this afternoon expressed outrage at the "extravagant" $55m publicly-funded "propaganda" campaign for Work Choices that aimed to expose each Australian to 29 television advertisements.
The Work Choices legislation protects employers from the harsh sanctions unions will be exposed to for unlawful industrial action by limiting the definition of employer industrial action to lockouts only, a paper shows.
The membership of the Victorian nurses' union has grown substantially over the past decade, largely due to the union's strong leadership and its ability to protect members' professional status, according to a new university study.
The ALP is to establish a nine-member IR taskforce to continue its campaign against the Coalition's second-wave laws over the parliamentary Christmas break and into next year.
An employer that refused to allow an accountant to return to work full-time after maternity leave denied her not only a full-time income but also a "significant" bonus payment, according to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.
The ACTU's multi-million dollar television advertising campaign against the Work Choices legislation will continue until the next federal election, backed by local publicity strategies designed to defeat Coalition MPs in marginal electorates.
In an early taste of the post-Work Choices environment, rail operator Pacific National this week locked out part of its workforce in retaliation for industrial action against it.
The Federal Government has told the Senate that it is not its intention under Work Choices to halt individual cases before the state courts and commissions, and it would address this in the regulations.
