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Ken Phillips
Who Controls Your Contract?
The Strange Return of an Industrial Club
Early this month the Business Council of Australia released an analysis of the federal ALP's industrial-relations policy that concluded adverse...
Super, a Fact of Employment
The deal done last week between the Australian Democrats and the federal government to introduce choice in superannuation highlights a little...
Technical Gimmick Undermines the Law
The recent criminal conviction and suspended jail sentence given to Craig Johnston for his role in the violence in 2001 at Skilled Engineering does...
Labor Tries to Move the Goalposts
Last week, following an Australian Consumer and Competition Commission application, the Federal Court imposed $100,000 fines against three unions,...
Japanese Retreat is a Great Loss for Australia
The announcement by the giant Japanese restaurant chain Saizeriya that its has finally scrapped its remaining investment plans for food...
Futility of an Anti-sweatshop Campaign
In years gone by it was comparatively easy to understand what was happening in industrial relations. Unions would organise workers to engage in...
Attacking Rehame
In years gone by it was comparatively easy to understand what was happening in industrial relations. Unions would organise workers to engage in...
Workers' future debated behind IRC's closed doors
During the last six months of 2003, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission began hearing a case which is likely to have a profound impact...
Casual alternative wrongly demonized
The proposal by the federal ALP to give casuals access to full time holiday and other entitlements reflects a long held view that any work that is...