INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – AUSTRALIA – REGULATION

Unions push for casual worker rights

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Original article by Ewin Hannan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 17-Mar-15

The ACTU wants casual workers to have a legal right to compulsory arbitration when employers do not "bargain in good faith". The ACTU will present its views on the matter in a submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into workplace relations. The Australian Industry Group argues in its submission that workplace agreements should include a mandatory clause about measures to improve productivity

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ACTU, THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY GROUP, AUSTRALIA. PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION

Voters to decide on minimum wage

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Original article by Fleur Anderson
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 28-Jan-15

The Productivity Commission is to investigate whether penalty rates are effective and whether the minimum wage erodes jobs. Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey says that any major recommendations on minimum wages by the inquiry will be voted on at the next federal election. Research in 2013 found that there is a nearly negligible, negative impact on employment from raising the minimum wage. Some 1.5 million people receive the minimum wage

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY, AUSTRALIA. PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, ACTU, 2GB, MACQUARIE RADIO NETWORK LIMITED – ASX MRN, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

AMMA hits out at biased, ‘union affiliated’ Fair Work

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Original article by Jonathan Barrett
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 10-Sep-14

The Australian Mines & Metals Association has raised concerns about the processes used to appoint members of the Fair Work Commission. It claims that 19 of the 27 commissioners that were appointed by the previous Federal Government have links to the Australian Labor Party or unions. This has been rejected by the Opposition’s shadow minister for workplace relations, Brendon O’Connor

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AUSTRALIAN MINES AND METALS ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED), AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK COMMISSION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, LAW COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Shell’s man cans corporate welfare

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Original article by Andrew Burrell
The Australian – Page: 18 : 21-Aug-14

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia on 20 August 2014 heard from Andrew Smith, the chair of Shell Australia. He argued that the industrial relations system needs to be overhauled in order to ensure further productivity gains, which in turn will improve living standards. Smith honoured the victims of previous reforms that had from the 1970s on dismantled the trade tariffs protecting many industries, and also said businesses must not rely on government aid

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SHELL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED,ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC,WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL,COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA