Low-profile Queensland MP Steven Ciobo will be the new Opposition small business, service economy and tourism spokesman, Liberal leader Bren…
Low-profile Queensland MP Steven Ciobo will be the new Opposition small business, service economy and tourism spokesman, Liberal leader Bren…
The existing unfair dismissal regime – including the exemption for small businesses – is likely to stay in place until mid to late 2008,…
Small business has featured prominently in the first public comments by Brendan Nelson and Julie Bishop as the new Liberal leadership team. …
It could be mid-2009 before the construction of a new fibre-to-the-node broadband network can begin, a leading technology analyst says.Ovum …
Labor has signalled that IR changes will be made sooner rather than later. Details are scarce, but there are parameters. Here’s an informe…
Small and medium business owners could have less than a month to sack failed employees before Labor introduces new IR laws that make sacking…
Former Treasurer Peter Costello has announced he will not be seeking leadership of the Liberal Party, following his party’s defeat in yester…
The big issue that has underpinned much of the campaign politics of the past two weeks, industrial relations, has come roaring back on to th…
Will a change of government on Saturday make workplace relations simple or sinuous for employers? Either way, you need to have a strategy in…
The Western Australian Government has announced the terms of reference for the inquiry into franchising in WA. The inquiry, which will be ch…
Stories about franchisees losing out at the hands of their franchisor are usually mum and dad tales of woe. This one is different. The world…
Opposition leader Kevin Rudd has continued to resist pressure from Prime Minister John Howard to reveal the ALP’s tax policy as it emerges…
