Posts tagged "workchoices"

When it comes to small business we are hearing lots of good rhetoric but seeing the opposite in action, says Peter Strong.

The Coalition and Labor have been arguing over the “better off overall test”, known as the BOOT. What is it, why are they arguing, and who is right?

The Coalition’s industrial relations omnibus bill will allow the FWC to approve two-year enterprise agreements that do not meet the BOOT.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week proposed a new deal in industrial relations, bringing together the government, employers and unions.

Christian Porter is wondering why we can't all just get along, and is asking businesses and employees to write in with suggestions to improve industrial relations.

Mark Bray, University of Newcastle and Johanna Macneil, University of Newcastle

The Rudd government came to power in 2007 with a mandate …

  There’s a new orthodoxy among more independent-minded policymakers, one that has only emerged in explicit terms in recent months: Austr…

The property industry should brace for impact if Prime Minister Kevin Rudd decides to postpone the September election date to later in the y…

In 2010, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said WorkChoices, the controversial industrial relations policy introduced by the Howard government, …

It is a measure of what a disaster ‘WorkChoices’ was for Australia that the Coalition can’t even go back to something that isn’t it. In a…

Yesterday Prime Minister Julia Gillard began the task of wrenching the political debate in Australia back towards Labor’s preferred terr…

The Fair Work Act was unashamedly drafted to play the unions back into the industrial game. And it did this with a vengeance. In the last tw…