Scott Morrison won his ‘miracle’ election but what he does from now on will determine whether the Coalition can secure a fourth term.
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In his first major domestic speech since the election, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will lay out economic policies "to get Australians off the economic sidelines and on the field again".
Dealing with the Coalition will more difficult than arguing than the rules are wrong.
Putting employee directors on Australian boards is seriously back on the agenda for the first time since the 1970s.
The global evidence from more than 300 studies on the economic impact of unionisation shows unions do not, overall, reduce productivity.
Paying wages directly would be an Australian first, and far from ideal.
Unions and Labor have a long history of working together, but if the ALP wins office, unions will have to compete with many other groups to get what they want.
Overruling the Fair Work Commission will give Labor what it wants, at the cost of diminishing the commission.
At this election there is a stark choice between the two major parties on industrial relations: the "small target" approach of the Coalition and the ALP's more ambitious and detailed plan.
It ought to be possible to replace Australia's minimum wage with a higher "living wage" without putting people our of work, but more will be needed.
Only twice have Australian electors chosen to vote out a sitting prime minister. Both times, industrial relations was the key. What can we learn from that?
Employment Minister Mathias Cormann has let the cat out of the bag. The government has been trying to supress wages.
Businesses and workers are at the mercy of mega-corporations.
McCormack must live in a parallel universe if he ever thought Broad's account of flying off on an overseas date, followed by an apparent move to extract money from him, was just "a personal matter".
In the lead up to next week's ALP national conference, which Shorten
needs to run smoothly, the government has been trying to exploit what
it sees as a Labor weak point – border protection.
Necessity and desperation are portrayed as the prime motivators of innovative behaviour, but in reality, stability and holistic incentives go a long way to freeing up creative energy.
There are 750,000 fewer workers under enterprise agreements now than when the Coalition was elected, McManus says in her speech to the John Curtin Research Centre.
Brendan O'Connor on Labor’s industrial relations agenda
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O'Connor says Labor remains totally opposed to the government's Ensuring Integrity legislation, which the Coalition wants to resurrect. "I can't see this bill in any way being salvageable."
Tech companies overseas are signing collective agreements with their employees. Might Australia be next?
Human Resources must adapt quickly to changes in the workplace to remain relevant and useful.
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Professor of Management + Director, Centre for Workplace Leadership, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Teaching Fellow in Human Resource Management, University of Sussex
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ARC Future Fellow 2012-2016, School of Business, University of Sydney
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Professor, Monash Business School, Department of Management, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, UTS Law School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, Associate Dean, University of Sydney Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Reader and Associate Professor in Law, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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ARC Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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