http://fairworkaustralia.com.au Better work place for Australians Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:56:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Hon. MATTHEW MASON-COX: Mr Watson, I refer to your comment that WorkCover is such a good place to work and that is why so many people want to work there. How does that statement stack up in light of the reports in the press about bullying and harassment in ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/311   "To have a genuinely national system there will at some point need to be a rationalisation of the ten-plus State and Federal agencies and tribunals.  Industry, however, would have serious concerns with a new agency that diminished the functions and independence of key institutions within the WorkChoices workplace relations system ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/278   Online and offline, bullying is a serious workplace problem. When did Australia become a land of cowards who puff themselves up at the expense of others?   Online bullying became a worldwide talking point in November 2008 when 49-yearold Lori Drew was convicted of cyber-bullying her daughter’s classmate Megan Meier, who committed ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/224   Australia is one step closer to a national industrial relations system under draft laws the federal government has introduced to parliament.   The legislation aims to end the overlap and duplication of state and federal workplace relations systems that continued to cause inefficiency and uncertainty as well as legal complexity, Workplace Relations ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/214 THE gender pay gap is not just a ''women's problem'' and legislation should be renamed the Workplace Equality Act to ditch the stereotype, the Federal Government's equal opportunity agency has argued. It has also called for the power to target companies it believes are underpaying female staff and send in inspectors ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/212 Unions will know in the next two weeks the extent of powers the new industrial body, Fair Work Australia, will have to oversee the building and construction industry. Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has brushed off accusations the government has tried to silence debate about the fate of the Howard government's ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/210 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has backed away from a pledge that no worker would be left worse off by award modernisation, saying that remained the government's objective but was never a guarantee. Under Labor's overhaul of the system, more than 4,000 state and federal awards are set to be streamlined into ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/208 Media release Appointment of Executive Director to Fair Work Australia The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Marion van Rooden as the Executive Director of the Fair Work Australia Establishment Taskforce. Applications were sought in August 2008 for an Executive Director to commence ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/204 It is nearly two years since former Prime Minister John Howard’s government was defeated in an electoral landslide, in no small part due to opposition to its hated “Work Choices” laws, which helped employers impose individual contracts on workers. Workers were led to believe—or at least hope—by their unions that “your ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/202 A peak business group has accused the new workplace regulator Fair Work Australia of overstepping its power, claiming it is allowing unions to "frustrate democratic processes". A series of decisions by Fair Work Australia to block or delay votes on workplace agreements, and order companies to meet with unions, prompted the ... http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/200