As the debate over executive pay continues, a new guide released yesterday by the BCA warns that remuneration should reward performance, not failure, and that no executive should be involved in deciding his or her remuneration.
A radical new agreement covering Heytesbury Holdings' vast cattle stations in northern Australia restructures pay to recognise that workers are likely to put in more than eight-hour days.
Employers must comply with new amendments to sex discrimination laws that take effect next week and could model their approach on best practice examples provided by big companies such as Westpac, IBM and ANZ, according to HR consultant Juliet Bourke.
Australia needs a more balanced approach to skills formation to counteract the current trend towards polarisation into high skill, high reward and low skill, low reward occupations, a Senate committee inquiry into skills shortage has found.
The Federal Government has made more than 40 changes to its draft Cole-based IR package for the construction industry, which are contained in the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Bill 2003 introduced into Parliament this morning by Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has introduced a bill today that allows third parties affected by industrial action to seek termination of a bargaining period, bans industrial action during the life of an agreement and enables the AIRC to order cooling-off periods. He has also re-introduced the crucial Termination of Employment Bill.
Cole legislation to be introduced tomorrow along with two more workplace bills; $500 fine for CFMEU official; and CSL intervention costs Federal Government $110,000.
The federal equal opportunity agency is about to begin a campaign to identify large organisations that haven't yet registered to report on their programs to promote a fair go for women at work.
CFMEU construction and general division secretary John Sutton has avoided compulsory removal from office, after a court yesterday accepted his guilty plea on two criminal charges of malicious damage but decided against convicting him.
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock will by early December introduce legislation amending the Disability Discrimination Act to make it lawful for employers to discriminate against drug addicts.
