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Fast independent news and analysis for IR/HR practitioners.BCA draws 10-year battle lines over IR system
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The BCA has called for a root-and-branch overhaul of the country's IR system that would significantly sideline the FWC in agreement-making, downgrade awards in favour of the NES and redirect the FWO's energies towards helping employers ensure their payrolls are compliant.Workplace Express2023-08-21T13:17:07+10:00ALP ponders employer role in AI job threat
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Employers that restructure to take advantage of artificial intelligence would be "responsible" for reskilling their workforces to avoid unnecessary redundancies, under a policy to be considered by this week's ALP national conference.Workplace Express2023-08-14T11:28:42+10:00"Same job, same pay" details revealed
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The Albanese Government has outlined for the first time the details of how it might implement its "same job, same pay" proposal that it framed to ensure labour hire arrangements are not used to undercut employees' pay and conditions.Workplace Express2023-04-14T15:02:58+10:00Paper spells out FWC powers for "employee-like" work
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Submissions are due next month on Albanese Government proposals to empower the FWC to set minimum standards and pay rates for those in "employee-like" forms of work, including in the gig economy, and to tackle disputes over contract terms and termination.Workplace Express2023-04-14T14:11:03+10:00Laws to reflect response to voluntary gig standards: Pallas
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Victoria's Andrews Labor Government has pledged a more hands-on approach to regulating the gig economy, with plans to introduce legislation next year if it wins the November 26 State election.Workplace Express2022-10-25T11:08:07+11:00Labor schedules IR Bill, with pay gap as first big reveal
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The Albanese Government has confirmed its Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill to be into introduced into Parliament next Thursday will include measures to close the gender pay gap, but IR academic Shae McCrystal says any legislation must also provide a right to strike or compulsory arbitration for workers engaging in multi-employer bargaining.Workplace Express2022-10-19T13:31:35+11:00NSW Labor makes gig economy protections an election issue
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As the Albanese Government continues talks on its planned introduction of national IR standards for the gig economy, NSW Labor is promising to deliver minimum rates, portable entitlements and workers compensation for platform workers in the State if it takes power next year.Workplace Express2022-10-10T14:41:04+11:00Labor MP's "anger" at precarious work
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A new Labor MP has described her personal experience of the "ache of insecure work" in the tertiary education sector to reinforce why it has become one of the primary targets in the Albanese Government's legislative agenda.Workplace Express2022-09-07T08:34:02+10:00Construction IR cop, ROC forging ahead as axe looms
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The ABCC maintains it is "business as usual" until the new Albanese Labor Government follows through on its election pledge to scrap it.Workplace Express2022-06-02T13:41:01+10:00"Women should not be paid less than men â it's that simple": Burke
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In his first announcement as federal IR minister, Tony Burke has put closing the gender pay gap at the forefront of his agenda, while encouraging workers to join their unions.Workplace Express2022-06-01T12:14:30+10:00Opposition faces down criticism of minimum wage stance
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In the face of criticism from a peak employer body, Labor has maintained its support for an increase in the minimum wage matching the current inflation rate of 5.1%, while hinting that it will make further announcements before the Federal election on Saturday week.Workplace Express2022-05-11T15:47:17+10:00It's time for 4% wage target to remedy pay crisis: Paper
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As wage stagnation and cost-of-living issues continue to feature in the federal election campaign, a new report shows Australia has experienced the greatest deceleration in real pay growth in the OECD since 2013, despite its relatively strong employment growth and low unemployment, suggesting that policy and institutional factors are the main culprit, rather than market forces.Workplace Express2022-05-11T00:05:00+10:00Roundtable pushes parties to embrace free childcare, living wage
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The next federal government should establish free early childhood education, amend the Fair Work Act to provide a legal right to a living wage for all workers, extend paid parental leave to 32 weeks and make the treasury responsible for "gender responsive budgeting", according to an academic group's report.Workplace Express2022-04-29T14:35:00+10:00FWC "balance" among Federal election battlegrounds
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The FWC faces major changes after the May 21 Federal election, with the winner entrusted with appointing a successor to President Iain Ross and Labor pledging to "rebalance" the tribunal after a succession of appointments from an employer background.Workplace Express2022-04-11T14:05:21+10:00Pressure on pay secrecy after CBA, Westpac retreats
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The FSU has vowed to continue pressuring financial services employers to ditch pay secrecy clauses following last week's decisions by the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac to expunge the obligations from new and existing contracts.Workplace Express2022-04-06T10:32:33+10:00Resource employers prod parties over IR reform
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In a clear effort to turn up the heat on IR reforms ahead of the federal election, the resource sector's peak employer body has urged all major parties to commit to introducing key parts of the Morrison Government's so-called Omnibus Bill that were hastily jettisoned last year.Workplace Express2022-03-31T15:03:20+11:00NZ government moves on industry-wide bargaining
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New Zealand's Ardern Labour Government has introduced legislation to enable occupational and industry-wide bargaining where unions can demonstrate worker support, or it passes a public interest test.Workplace Express2022-03-30T14:37:31+11:00Wage growth to outpace inflation for next four years: Treasury
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The Federal Government is forecasting in its 2022-23 Budget that wage growth will increasingly outpace consumer price inflation for the next four financial years, after lagging badly in the current 12 months.Workplace Express2022-03-30T06:05:21+11:00ACTU trains sights on "MIA" PM
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The ACTU has distributed to thousands of union member households a trio of election corflutes that seek to mock Prime Minister Scott Morrison over his 2019 Hawaiian holiday as the "black summer" bushfires roared, ahead of the Coalition's attempted spending counter-attack in today's Federal BudgetWorkplace Express2022-03-29T06:32:00+11:00"Big choice" at election on IR regulation: Stewart
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With the Coalition confirming it is still committed to remaining measures in its Omnibus Bill and Labor pledging to double down on insecure work, labour law academic Andrew Stewart says in a pre-Budget policy analysis that the nation faces a "big choice" on IR regulation.Workplace Express2022-03-25T13:18:49+11:00SA Labor Government to move on wage theft, labour hire
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South Australia's new Premier, Peter Malinauskas, takes office on a platform that includes introducing jail time for the worst cases of wage theft, creating an offence of industrial manslaughter and extending labour hire regulation across all industries.Workplace Express2022-03-22T12:32:40+11:00Biden union organising report might assist Labor
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A leading IR academic says a new White House report on union organising and empowerment could be a source of ideas for Labor if it takes power at the likely May election.Workplace Express2022-03-14T10:31:00+11:00Submissions due in February for maternity leave review
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The newly-announced review of the 1973 Maternity Leave Act provides an opportunity for the Federal Government to resume its role as a pacesetter, according to Sydney University's Professor Marian Baird.Workplace Express2021-12-13T09:51:55+11:00Albanese stakes out labour hire battleground
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Federal Opposition leader Anthony Albanese this morning confirmed his determination to make working conditions a major battleground in the upcoming Federal election with his introduction of a private member's bill aimed at erasing the gap between directly-employed and labour hire workers.Workplace Express2021-11-22T12:56:45+11:00New FWC power to confer gig-matching flexibility: Labor
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Labor's plan to give the FWC the power to deal with employee-like forms of work has been designed to avoid the deficiencies in domestic and overseas models that highly-flexible platforms have been able to readily evade, according to Shadow IR Minister Tony Burke.Workplace Express2021-11-12T10:10:20+11:00Court upholds government power to mandate vaccinations
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The NSW Supreme Court has backed the State government's use of Public Health Orders to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for certain categories of workers, dismissing arguments that the directions compromised objectors' "right" to choose what they put in their bodies.Workplace Express2021-10-18T15:17:34+11:00BHP's vax mandate earns thumbs-down from union
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BHP's announcement that its workforce will have to be vaccinated by the end of January has failed to win support from the miners' union, with a State leader championing the alternative of education and incentives while pointing out that the company is not the direct employer of most of its workers.Workplace Express2021-10-07T15:41:43+11:00Introduce paid domestic violence leave for all workers: Westacott
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The BCA has called for government, business and unions to collaborate on the best model to establish paid family and domestic violence leave as a universal employment right.Workplace Express2021-09-07T13:41:30+10:00Newsflash: ACTU Congress upended by virus
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The policy development aspect of next week's planned ACTU triennial Congress has been put on ice as a consequence of Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdown.Workplace Express2021-07-23T12:48:38+10:00Major greenfields deals back on agenda; employers push for more
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The Morrison Government has committed to reintroducing the major projects greenfields agreement provisions it removed from the IR Omnibus Bill, while employer organisations are pushing it to revive other jettisoned elements that would have overhauled enterprise bargaining and the award system.Workplace Express2021-06-09T08:12:36+10:00