Older workers will have to accept part-time and contract work if they wish to remain in the workforce, PM John Howard said today as he announced an inquiry into boosting their labour market participation rates.
The federal Minister for Ageing, Kevin Andrews, today outlined a four-point plan to help HR managers keep valuable mature-age employees in the workforce.
An AIRC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of four News Ltd printing workers who breached the company's drug and alcohol policy by drinking up to five schooners during their lunch break.
The CFMEU (construction and general division) is considering launching a new bid to extend its coverage into civil construction, after a Federal Court full bench threw out its long-running rules case on Friday.
No casualisation at Qantas, says CEO; CFMEU secures fifth national deal at Bovis Lend Lease; First s170LJ deal at AFFA goes to ballot; and AIRC upholds sacking of worker who drove trotters while on sick and family leave.
The Business Council has posed a series of questions to chief executives and HR managers to assess their readiness for the ageing of the workforce, in a new guide it has issued today.
Striking offshore oil platform workers employed by four construction contractors to Esso have voted this afternoon to go back to work, after the AIRC on Friday afternoon issued a s127 order that required the oil company's direct employees to cross their picket line.
The WA IRC has rebuffed an attempt by the LHMU to boost Burswood Casino award employees' benefits by incorporating key conditions of the company's AWA workers.
The WA IRC has issued its first enterprise order under the Gallop Government's new IR Act, in a decision likely to give heart to Pilbara mining unions seeking to use the same provisions. The ruling, however, is set to be appealed.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet finished the union movement's triennial Congress on an evangelical note, but he acknowledged that he was disappointed with delegates' response to Opposition leader Simon Crean's policy speech, and called on the union movement to get behind the ALP.
