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Australian labour hire in the spotlight
For many years the labour hire industry has been in the cross-hairs of the labour movement.There is, without doubt, no shortage of cases where labour …
Australian Federal Election Workplace and Industrial Relations Survey: Back to the future?
In the lead up to the 2022 Australian Federal Election, our national team ran a series of feedback sessions and surveyed our national clients. The …
Take 2: What the Alp’s Agenda may mean for WA’s mining sector this time
Three years ago, before the last Federal election, we published an article about what the ALP’s agenda, which was lengthy, detailed and ambitious, might …
Climate change: succeed in a net-zero future
The risks associated with climate change go way beyond the purely environmental.In our climate change briefing we consider at a high level the political, …
New ISO whistleblowing guidelines: implications for Australian and global businesses
New guidelines for whistleblower management systems have been recently released by ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) (ISO …
Changing Australian workplaces for the Covid recovery
The Australian Government has made much of pledges to change the workplace to support post-Covid recovery. Can it deliver?Australian Industrial Relations …
The arrival of the Omnibus
Fair Work Act changes for the COVID recovery Following a gestation of seven months, the Workplace Relations Reform: Fair Work Amendment (Supporting …
Greenfields agreements – ‘project life agreements’?
The threat of unpredictable and escalating costs, and the risk of a major project being halted before completion by protected industrial action, plagues …
Directors and ESG disclosure – The risks will only get bigger
With activist investors and NGOs prowling, firms making flimsy ethical claims will increasingly end up in courtIn the context of BlackRock’s climate …
A mega boost for the mega projects of the future
At a business breakfast in Perth on Wednesday 15 May, Bill Shorten announced an important policy the ALP will pursue if it achieves Government after this …
“All is fair in love and war” – but what about in industrial relations?
It was once said (and many times repeated) that “[t]he adage ‘‘all is fair in love and war’’ is… as much applicable to industrial warfare as to any other …
Industrial Relations Law Reform Agenda
Having difficulty cutting across the campaigning to focus on the actual policies of each party? Herbert Smith Freehills have prepared and continually …
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