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ILO seeks ruling on right to strike

The ILO's governing body has asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague for an urgent advisory opinion on whether a crucial labour convention on freedom of association extends to workers having a right to strike.

Nobel for historical detective work on gender pay gap

The Nobel Prize for economic sciences has been awarded to a Harvard professor who has a penchant for historical detective work, digging into gender differences in labour markets that stretch back to the eighteenth century.

Limited wage-price spiral risk: IMF to RBA

The highly-orthodox IMF has told the RBA's annual research conference that it is "hard to find" recent wage-price spirals across advanced economies and that pay acceleration "should not be seen as a sign" that the corkscrew feared by the central bank "is taking hold", in a session in which new board member and former FWC president Iain Ross led discussion.


Suggestive singing amounted to harassment

A UK tribunal has found that a male manager harassed a male worker by touching him inappropriately and suggestively singing a song about propositioning someone for s-x.


New UK bills extend flexible work rights

Two proposed new UK laws aim to protect workers by making their time on the job more flexible and predictable, with one bill attempting to combat "one-sided flexibility" by providing the right to seek a reliable working pattern, and another making it easier to make flexible working requests.

Working holiday program fills "undesirable" jobs: Expert

Australian and Canadian governments promote their working holiday visa schemes for their "cultural exchange" but use them to fulfil labour demand in "occupations and industries characterised by precarious jobs undesirable to locals," according to a new paper published in the Journal of IR.

Rank-and-filer challenging Crumlin for MUA leadership

Long-serving MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin is facing a rank-and-file challenger in the union's quadrennial elections, which will also have contested polls for State leadership positions in Queensland and Victoria.