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Hypocrisy at work in pay claims
Australian Workplace Agreements: how ironic that the individual workplace instruments unions spent a decade vehemently attacking should now become...
The unsafe option
It's an odd idea that Julia Gillard, in conjunction with the states and territories, would propose national harmonised work safety laws that would...
Fertile ground for litigation culture
In the three months since the Fair Work Act 2009 started, we are seeing the extent to which the bargaining environment has changed. Only a few...
Dark ages is the real deal
If you ever wanted to know the impact of Kevin Rudd's industrial relations policies there are easy ways of finding out. You could read the decision...
Cursed by demographics
The persistent confusion of financial signals is perplexing at the moment - particularly for those of us who might be categorised as small to...
A new kind of union muscle
One thing this week's ACTU Congress should remind all Australian's is that the union movement is a big and impressive organisation - and combative....
Back to the bad old days
Violence appears to have re-emerged on Victorian construction sites. In the past few weeks, ordinary construction workers and their families have...
Three-storey limit tells a tale of union domination
The Property Council agrees. So do major property developers such as Lend Lease and Australand. Town planning experts at RMIT express similar...
Bill sidelines employees
It's highly probable that the Rudd government's new Fair Work Bill could result in the slow withering or even death of the enterprise agreement...
Wage rises will cost jobs
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. These words of wisdom came from Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, last November. Rahm...