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The Fair Work Amendment (Same Job, Same Pay) Bill 2021 threatens the viability of labour hire services and ignores the views of more than the 360,000

It's been less than a year since the infamous decision of Workpac Pty Ltd v Rossato, which confirmed (at the time) that the determination of whether an...

Premium Content Subscriber only Industrial relations reform may the key to securing the electoral support of Central Queensland and its workers, but the devil is in the details if Senator Murray Watt’s recent visit to Rockhampton is anything to go by. Mr Watt visited Rockhampton’s CFMEU office last Friday to promote the policies to do with casualisation, particularly in the resources sector, that Federal Labor will bring to the next election. “We understand the export dollars, the royalti...

The Fair Work Act could be amended with respect to casual employees, enterprise bargaining, compliance and enforcement.

The Victorian Liberal Nationals are calling on the Premier to publicly denounce the offensive television ad launched by the Electrical Trades Union (ETU)...

Date Time Employment law proposals set to impact Australia’s employers in 2021 2021 is set to be a bumper year for employment law changes with a number of wide-ranging proposals in the pipeline. The Coalition government’s Industrial Relations reform bill, which was unveiled at the end of 2020, is likely to have the biggest impact on employers across the country. HRD spoke to Kyle Scott, director of the Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors (ABLA) about some of the key areas for employers t...

Union thug John Setka and his CFMEU cronies are the beneficiaries, but are not the cause of our fractured industrial relations system. Its a sham system that not only fails to block corrupt unions like the CFMEU, but seems to support them. How else could regular workplace thuggery be tolerated? Why else could the intimidation flourish? How else could taxpayers be gouged billions extra for vital public works? Could it be because of a cosy relationship with the top-tier building firms who wi...

Union thug John Setka and his CFMEU cronies are the beneficiaries, but are not the cause of our fractured industrial relations system. Its a sham system that not only fails to block corrupt unions like the CFMEU, but seems to support them. How else could regular workplace thuggery be tolerated? Why else could the intimidation flourish? How else could taxpayers be gouged billions extra for vital public works? Could it be because of a cosy relationship with the top-tier building firms who wi...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australias Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 – What it means for you The Morrison Government introduced the  Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australias Job and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 ( Bill) to Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020.  Employer groups have welcomed the Bills changes as the first step to getting industrial relations back on track....

Date Time Unpacking Fair Work Act’s new casual conversion “right” Earlier this week, the federal government unveiled the much-anticipated Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 in parliament. One of the key areas of focus for the federal government was casual employment and the ability for casual workers to convert to permanent employment if certain conditions were met. The explanatory memorandum to the newly unveiled bill suggests that a statu...