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Landmark EBA for staff at Sydney bookstore a “one off” unlikely to catch on elsewhere: Peter Strong

Industrial Relations

David Adams

11 July 2022

Staff and management at Sydney's Better Read Than Dead have entered a landmark agreement brokered by the RAFFWU.

Qantas wage freeze offer is “insulting” as staff prepare to strike in deepening crisis for Alan Joyce

Industrial Relations

Emma Elsworthy

7 July 2022

The besieged national airline is facing another major crisis as 1000 Qantas staff prepare to strike amid failed negotiations over a 12% pay rise that management called unaffordable.

Uber drivers and other gig economy workers may still remain contractors under Labor’s reforms

Industrial Relations

David Peetz

5 July 2022

There are good reasons to aim to regulate gig economy workers as contractors, rather than attempting to bring them under the umbrella of being employees.

Uber and the TWU have reached a landmark agreement. What does it mean for the gig economy?

Industrial Relations

Caleb Goods, Tom Barratt and Alex Veen

30 June 2022

Uber Australia's agreement with the Transport Workers’ Union is a statement of principles that re-regulate work in the Australian rideshare and food delivery industry.

Flexible work is a “baseline expectation”, new DEWR secretary and former Fair Work ombudsman says

Industrial Relations

Anna Macdonald

27 June 2022

Incoming secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Natalie James says companies not offering flexible work arrangements risk losing people.

HungryPanda to pay $830,000 to the family of a rider who died on the job, as experts consider precedent for gig economy

Industrial Relations

Gazala Anver

23 June 2022

In a landmark ruling, a HungryPanda worker, who died after he was hit by a bus in Sydney while working for the company, has been deemed an employee and not a contractor.

Albanese has grand plans for industrial relations reform, but he needs to build a new consensus

Industrial Relations

Mark Bray, Andrew Stewart and Johanna Macneil

14 June 2022

Fostering the co-operation needed to deliver inclusive growth will require overcoming a history of bad habits and soured relationships at the enterprise, industry and national levels.

How will Labor keep its IR promises on wage growth and gender equality?

Economy

The Conversation

25 May 2022

At this election, Labor campaigned on the need to address three key issues: wage stagnation, insecure jobs and gender inequality.

What the Albanese government can do to end wage ‘theft’

Industrial Relations

Sudha Viswanathan

23 May 2022

"The complexity of the awards that outline minimum pay rates and conditions of employment result in many employers unknowingly underpaying their workers," writes Pitcher Partners' Sudha Viswanathan.

Millions of workers in line for 10 days of paid domestic violence leave after Fair Work Commission decision

Human Resources

David Adams

17 May 2022

Millions of Australian may soon have access to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave a year, after the Fair Work Commission gave provisional backing to the new entitlement.