People & associates
Ken Phillips
OHS the new battle ground
Anyone who thought the battlelines over workplace reform were clearly established around Work Choices needs to look again. The extent to which Work...
Federal scheme a monopoly buster
Ask just about anyone involved in running a business about workers' compensation and you're likely to receive a highly negative response saying...
IR balancing act relies on lots of fine tuning
Any confusion over Work Choices comes not just from the legislation's massive size but also from a misunderstanding of its political framework....
The perils of small business in NSW
Many Central Coast people will have heard of the Small Business Reform Group. SBRG formed a few years ago after the local regional office of the...
Whoever said that laws had to be logical?
Whoever said that laws had to be logical? In NSW however work safety laws seem to be going to extremes to prove that logical has no role to play....
Self-employed are coming up smiling
It won't surprise many people but it may annoy some. International research has shown that self-employed people are happier at work than the...
Doing business in NSW
You'd think that if you acted on government instructions and something went wrong that you wouldn't be in trouble with authorities. For example if...
Death at work: who should be blamed?
Anyone involved in running a business needs to be aware of the tug of war over work safety laws. Whether you are an employee, manager, executive or...
Labour reform vital to the boom in WA
Is it controversial to claim that WA's economic boom would not have been so huge if cutting edge labour reforms had not happened over the last...
NSW work safety law undermining industry
New South Wales work safety laws are the worst in Australia and possibly the worst in the world. The laws create unsafe work cultures involving...