Archived News for Human Resource Professionals - September, 2012
The Queensland budget has announced around 10,600 redundancies in 2012-13, with total job losses amounting to around 14,000, taking into account discontinuing temporary positions and not filling vacant positions.
NSW Treasurer takes on Industrial Relations
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has announced that Treasurer Mike Baird has had industrial relations added to his portfolio responsibilities.
Report on enterprise agreements released
The Minister for Workplace Relations Bill Shorten has released Trends in Enterprise Bargaining Report for the June quarter 2012 which shows that more than 20,500 enterprise agreements covering 2.62 million employees have been made since the agreement making provisions of the Fair Work Act began on 1 July 2009.
Survey shows workers think employers break overtime rules
An international survey of hourly wage earners by US human resources firm Kronos has shown that Australian workers believe their employers frequently break overtime laws.
Unemployment down 0.1%
Australia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.1 percentage point to 5.1 per cent in August, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Insecure work makes for unsafe workplaces: ACTU
The ACTU has claimed that the rise of insecure work in Australia over the past few decades has made employees less able to speak up for their rights and workplaces less safe.
AiGroup calls for action on Fair Work Act
"Today's jump in the level of industrial disputes confirms what industry has been saying for some time; there are some big problems in the Fair Work Act that need to be addressed without delay,"
No long term salary loss from maternity leave: report
Australian women who take paid maternity leave after having a baby aren’t suffering any long term salary loss, a new University of Melbourne study has found.
ABS reports on labour mobility
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its report on Labour Mobility, presenting findings about people aged 15 years and over who, within the 12 months to February 2012, either had a change of employer/business in their main job, or had some change in work with their current employer/business, for whom they had worked for one year or more.
ACT Labor promises to set up Industrial Magistrate's Court
ACT Labor has undertaken to establish a an Industrial Magistrate’s Court and appoint Industrial Magistrates to oversee work safety law in the ACT if it is re-elected in October.
One in six Australians forced to leave job
Some 2.5 million Australians ceased a job during the year ending February 2012 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Around 1 in 6 of these lost their last job because they were retrenched, made redundant or their employer went out of business. In 2010, around 1 in 5 people reported that they lost their last job for these reasons (compared with 1 in 10 in 2008).
The most common main reasons for ceasing a last job during the year ending February 2012 were: