The Inquiry has recommended that a licensing scheme be set up to regulate labour hire operators. The report also called on the Victorian Government to advocate for a national licensing scheme for labour hire operators, through the Council of Australian Governments. The Victorian Government has accepted in principle the recommendations regarding licensing and advocacy to...

This report examines the influence of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) - formally Fair Work Australia - through its supervisory role in the enterprise bargaining process, and the consequences of FWC's involvement for the way that employers, employees and unions manage industrial relations at the workplace level. The study focuses on FWC's handling and determination...

This paper examines the decisive shift away from traditional forms of third party intervention by public dispute resolution agencies in Canada, the US, Ireland and the UK. It also argues that, given the decline of dispute resolution in the Australian context and the imminent establishment of Fair Work Australia, it is timely to consider providing...

Labor has moved a long way to unseat the government, says Anthony Forsyth, but is it too far for the unions?

Whichever party wins government, procedures for dealing with disputes need to change, writes Anthony Forsyth.