The government's latest industrial relations reform does little to change the power between employers and employees - with the former still strongly advantaged.
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The Morrison Government has picked up its weapons again, with an industrial relations bill that will tip the scales further against employees.
Scott Morrison may have realised his real power is not as an advocate but a broker.
Unions, business and government will sit down to try to overhaul our industrial relations system. Past and recent history tell us this is a tough ask.
An examination of 80,000 enterprise bargaining agreements finds that on average 80% of each increase in compulsory super has been at the expense of wages.
Even with the most favourable laws, unions will still need to confront the reality of a dramatic transformation in the world of work.
Austraila’s minimum wages now operate in relative isolation. Until the 1990s they were part of an inter-connected system.
Even though enterprise bargaining agreements proved controversial when introduced, their use is actually in decline today.
Echoes of WorkChoices? The Coalition is keen to avoid any whiff of the failed policy, but some of the Productivity Commission's recommendations have a strong flavour of it.
Sunday penalty rates will go under Productivity Commission recommendations, but overall our workplace system was basically operating well, it found.
Over the course of the last few months, industrial relations has once again become a major issue on the national political agenda. Allegations of union corruption, uncompetitive wage deals, inflexible…
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