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Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... political edge when he said the government should put inflation guarantees into any new post-WorkChoices industrial relations legislation rewrite. But Senator Fielding from Family First seem to set the media bloggers most ablaze yesterday with his call ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... was education policy while this thinking may also have been the idea behind the Gillard super-ministry of industrial relations, education and training. This boost to education-productivity policy may however require a bit more than simplistic gimmickry ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... pilots on AWAs. With Virgin Blue already having to cancel some flights due to pilot shortages, AFAP's head of industrial relations Lawrie Cox commented, "It's not as if there's a ready supply of pilots sitting around." Peter Somerville of the Australian ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... has on the private sector where wage rises have been kept to a few per cent since the inception of the new industrial relations regime. During the year to August 2006 seasonally adjusted total public sector wages rose by 4.6 per cent and these were largely ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... cent of executives said that the July income tax had positive effects on their business. Research by the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the University of New South Wales has revealed that 37 per cent of employees who have casual work contracts ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... Advocate has released a report by Monash University Associate Professor Peter Gahan on the new Work Choices industrial relations laws which concludes that around 20 per cent of callers to their information line have expressed their concern over job security ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... billion called for by Australian Industry Group counterpart, Heather Ridout, was too simplistic and that industrial relations reform and educational fee reform are higher priorities. Hendy also favours a voucher and fee structure within TAFE like that ...

Sunsuper sets out to educate employers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
... employees. The training will canvass issues affecting administration, payroll, human resources, accounts, industrial relations and finance. Don Luke, chief executive officer of Sunsuper, said employers needed to remain up-to-date in the current environment ...

Commonwealth banks on customer service and IT

... and Citibank, also joins the company as chief information officer (CIO) next month. And hot on the tail of industrial relations changes, the bank plans to include further skills development and flexible work arrangements to retain and motivate staff. ...

Award workers to have choice of fund

... The move is being touted as an attempt by the Government to preserve State agreements under the new Federal industrial relations system, through the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations. The Minister went ...