Industrial Relations Agreements. Many HR practitioners create a fine distinction between two areas of the HR space: labor relations and employee relations. Labor relations, also referred to as ...

A long-running industrial dispute over last year’s Queensland Teachers’ Union election has come to a head with the state’s ...

FROM the onset I wish to indicate that I hold no brief for either the outgoing office holder or the newly appointed president of the Industrial Court. However, as an industrial relations ...

The new Industrial Act has been described as an open invitation to official action, a legal quagmire, and an unashamed capitulation to employer pressure. The charges came from the Workers’ Party ...

Court of Appeal says the director-general of industrial relations is obliged to refer a case if conciliation is unsuccessful.

The coordinated attacks on the labor movement and workers rights are continuing to chip away at union density—and corporate ...

Employers offering dodgy pay rates in their job advertisements now face fines of up to $16,500, thanks to the latest industrial relations update included in the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill. As of ...

The ACT senator was the crucial vote in passing Labor’s first round of industrial reforms in December, which enabled the government to broaden multi-employer bargaining laws in return for ...

The Labour Court is using powers it has under the Industrial Relations Act 1990 in its latest effort to break the deadlocked Aer Lingus pilots’ pay dispute. Following nine hours of talks on ...

He said this was because the MoA had not been deposited with the court for formal recognition, as required by the Industrial Relations Act 1967.

Remaining Industrial Relations funding has been allocated to: address small business concerns about the new paid family and domestic violence leave amendments to the FW Act; and enable the FWC to ...

My guess is that on August 26 when the industrial relations act comes into operation will make August the month when companies that can’t lift prices will stop sitting back and watching and will ...