Many economic and social commentators, including the University of Canberra’s Josh Fear on The Conversation yesterday, continue to express concern about the number of hours many Australians spend doing…
Workers are finding it increasingly difficult to leave work on time or enjoy their free time.
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Today is national Go Home on Time Day, the one day of the year that you can work the hours you are paid for and no more – without feeling guilty. Since The Australia Institute first declared Go Home on…
After 20 years of enterprise bargaining, are we seeing an unintended return to compulsory arbitration?
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With the threat of further industrial action at Qantas looming and Victorian nurses continuing with their rolling work bans, you could be forgiven for thinking that Australia has entered a new phase of…
In debate over the Qantas IR dispute, the truth of the Fair Work Act is the elephant in the room.
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The drawn-out dispute between Qantas and unions that led to the airline’s entire fleet being grounded over the weekend has sparked calls for reform of Australia’s industrial relations laws.
Business leaders…
Tony Abbott has tough decisions to make on workplace reform before the next election.
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In one of the most significant moments of the 2010 federal election campaign, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott declared the Coalition’s unpopular WorkChoices policy “dead, buried, cremated.”
In an interview…
Equal pay is a test case for employers, who frequently appear not to recognise gender pay disparity.
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Last week’s Equal Pay Day highlighted the fact that despite decades of supposed reform, women’s average full-time weekly earnings remains 17.2% below men.
Is this obvious to our employers? Worryingly…
New research suggests a bit of clutter actually helps us be more productive.
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BHP copped a fair amount of flak for a leaked memo which outlined its daunting list of rules about employee behaviours.
BHP’s “office environment standard” reportedly includes making staff remove post…
Few in the Liberal party are keen to see a potentially damaging return to the workplace debate.
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With political debate dominated by carbon and mining taxes, the recent stirrings by Peter Reith about industrial relations may have come as a bit of a surprise – out of left field, if you will excuse the…
