Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Australia as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Australia: Additional details of new temporary skill shortage visa Released
The new temporary TSS visa introduced on March 1st 2018 requires applicants to have at least two years’ experience in their skilled field …
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Australia: Domino’s Pizza wage deal faces Fair Work challenge
A new deal for employees working for Domino Pizza franchisees across the country has brought together 27 former agreements, all of whom have expired …
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Australia: Streamlined reporting with Single Touch Payroll
From July 1st 2018, companies employing 20 or more employees will be obliged to submit payroll data via the Taxation Office’s Single Touch Payroll (STP) …
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Australia: Work-related training and adult learning
Participation in work-related training decreased to 22% in 2016-17 from 27% in 2013 …
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Australia: Amazon’s labour-hire deal and collective bargaining
The launch of Amazon’s new Australian operations in December 2017 has resulted in over 200 warehouse and distribution jobs being filled through its labour-hire company Adecco …
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Australia: Consideration of corporate tax rate cuts
Constraints on consumer spending and the level of household debt is leading Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to consider tax cuts this year for low-middle income families …
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Australia: Unions to fight rise of casual work in major industrial relations battle
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is putting pressure on the national government to introduce legislation that would reduce the level of workplace ’casualisation’ …
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Australia: Electrician “fairly dismissed” after hiding work GPS in a Twisties packet
An electrician from Perth in Western Australia has been found by the air work Commission to have been fairly dismissed after having visiting his golf 140 times in a period of two years whilst he was supposed to be at work …
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Australia: Same-sex marriage
Australia’s centre-right Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has promised to act by Christmas to legalise same-sex marriage …
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Australia: Industrial manslaughter bill passes Queensland Parliament
The Queensland Parliament has adopted legislation establishing the criminal offence of ‘Industrial Manslaughter’ …
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Australia: 69% travel to work by car in 2016
According to the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, 69% of Australians travel to work by car …
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Australia: Penalty rates
The Decision of the Fair Work Commission earlier this year to reduce penalty rates continues to attract heavy opposition …
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Australia: Corporation tax cut
The government’s controversial AU$65 …
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Australia: Labour hire licensing
Several states and territories are in the process of introducing laws to require the licensing of labour hire agencies in order to prevent contractual entrapment, poor pay and working conditions brought about by triangular deployment arrangements such as those commonly practiced by meat processing establishments …
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Australia: Latest collective agreements
The latest one-year Australian collective agreement between the electrical and electronic engineering group Thales and the AMWU, AWU, NUW and professional engineering union has just come into force …
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