Almost half the full-time workforce is working regular unpaid overtime of an average of eight hours each week, according to a new survey of employee sentiment.
In a rare move, the CPSU has asked the IRC to find a dispute exists between labour hire workers at Telstra and their employers, as part of its bid to establish a first award.
The signing last week of the first global agreement on industrial relations with a mining company – AngloGold - is a "major achievement" that has implications for Australia, according to CFMEU national secretary, and president of the ICEM, John Maitland.
The International Monetary Fund has urged Australia to introduce a unitary IR system and reduce its reliance on the "blunt instrument" of the award system to protect the low-paid.
Head contractors who have workplace deaths on their construction sites could face penalties equivalent to 2% of total project costs, if a proposal put forward by Royal Commissioner Terence Cole is adopted.
The AMWU has got over one more hurdle on the long road to establishing a first federal award covering labour hire workers, with a full bench of the IRC rejecting the AIG's appeal against an earlier dispute finding.
Greater workplace flexibility under contemporary IR laws has enabled extended shifts and long working hours in the mining industry and created substantial OHS risks, according to a new report released today.
The Queensland IRC has reserved its decision on the AiG's bid to have the state redundancy test case adjourned indefinitely, pending the resolution of the federal test case on the same matter.
