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The West Australian Government has been criticised for not doing enough to ensure local companies win business on big resources projects.
The acting secretary of Unions WA, Simone McGurk, says the Government's local content policy contains no guarantees or set percentages for Australian companies.
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US President Barack Obama has pledged to reverse the previous administration's anti-union policies, saying he believes unions are part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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In the wake of announcing yesterday that WA won’t refer its IR powers to Canberra, state Commerce Minister Troy Buswell has today called for the Federal Government to allow employment to be made conditional on signing an individual flexibility agreement, and revealed that he wants similar provisions in the state’s individual agreements stream, which will get a makeover.
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The ABCC substantially increased its use of its compulsory examination power in 2007-08, almost tripling the number of notices to attend and answer questions, its annual report reveals.
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"WorkChoices is on the way out and the new industrial-relations laws can't come quickly enough", writes ACTU President Sharan Burrow inThe Australian.
22 September 2008
Collective bargaining as the centrepiece of a new IR system will turn Work Choices on its head; however there are still gaps in Labor's plan.
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THE Federal Government has called in an expert to try to reverse the trend for industrial relations legislation to grow ever longer and more complex.
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JOB losses have began to bite as West Australian businesses battle to cope with the 30 per cent cut to the state's gas supplies caused by last week's explosion at the Apache Energy-run pipeline.
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THE architect of a gold-plated scheme to give Australian mothers six months of paid maternity leave at full pay has urged women not to settle for less, warning that the nation has only one chance to get it right.
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