Seldom has 12 months seen so much energy spent on “industrial relations” for so little consequence. Press releases, headlines and indeed plenty of scalps - union leaders, senior tribunal members, even a then-popular Prime Minister diminished as the politics of IR, the scandal, the sound and fury took centre stage. Corruption, violence, ...
IR in 2016: All sound and fury ... signifying nothing
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Employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations? 2016 was a year of delivery for the Turnbull Government. It went to a double dissolution election on two vital pieces of IR legislation. Important breakthroughs were made in passing these bills. We have shown that the Parliament can work constructively to pass necessary reforms in the natio...
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Shadow employment minister Brendan O'Connor
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? The Turnbull Government's industrial and workplace relations agenda is thin and opportunistic. Malcolm Turnbull called a double dissolution based on two workplace relations bills - the ABCC [Australian Building and Construction Commission] and registered organisations bills - and th...
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2016 observations and 2017 predictions
IR parties look back on 2016 and predict what the new year should bring.
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University of Adelaide Professor Andrew Stewart
Biggest Development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? I'm going to nominate a non-event: the federal Coalition's failure to respond to the Productivity Commission's report on the workplace relations framework. In 2013 the grand plan was to tinker with the Fair Work Act, establish a Royal Commission to target unions and the ALP, then de...
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Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary Dave Noonan
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? The biggest development for our union is the renewal of thousands of agreements this year that will improve the pay and conditions of workers in the construction industry. The other major development is the growth of the union as increasing numbers of workers are joining. Biggest sl...
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Australian Industry Group national WR policy head Stephen Smith
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? The passage of the ABCC Bill and the making of the new Building Code under the legislation, following over three years of torrid debate and a double dissolution election. Biggest sleeper issue? While not really a sleeper issue, it has become apparent this year that a better off over...
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Seyfarth Shaw Australia senior associate Erin Hawthorne
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? We continue to see employers facing challenges arising from legacy labour arrangements that were entered into many years ago and are not suited to the current environment. These legacy arrangements arise across different industries and are increasingly difficult to manage - they cre...
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Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Dave Oliver
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? Companies actively using agreement terminations as a bargaining tactic is a disturbing new trend but the ability shown by the union movement in winning the historic CUB [Carlton & United Breweries] dispute to use consumer boycotts to hold multi-national corporations to account f...
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Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein
Biggest event: The procession of wage fraud scandals engulfing iconic businesses has shone a light on the dark underbelly of the Australian labour market. The scandals, involving 7 Eleven, Myer, Woolworths, Caltex and others, underline that there are profound flaws in labour market regulation in Australia. Fundamental law reform is necessary but it...
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One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? The Registered Organisations Bill because it will eventually change the culture of unions and steer them toward providing service and value for money for union members. We're proud to have supported the RO Bill because it protects union members from fraud and theft by union bosses. ...
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Australian Mines and Metals Association CEO Steve Knott
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? For the biggest IR event in 2016 it's hard to split the CFA [Country Fire Authority] dispute and the successful return of the ABCC. In a long federal election campaign where discussions on workplace relations otherwise mysteriously disappeared, the CFA saga had it all. We saw a powe...
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RMIT University Professor Anthony Forsyth
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? It's a toss-up. The CFA dispute and abolition of the RSRT [Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal] are up there. But in my view, the biggest development was the promise - in the event, unfulfilled - of a federal election focused on IR legislation. The ABCC [Australian Building and Constr...
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Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO James Pearson
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? Workplace relations took centre stage in the election campaign after the Government used the ABCC and Registered Organisations Bills as triggers for the double dissolution. This meant everyone in the community heard the case to restore the rule of law and cut costs on the nation's b...
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And the final word goes to…. Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James
The accountability of individuals and corporations for the exploitation of vulnerable workers was a major theme for the year. It played out amid increasing community concern about the treatment of overseas workers in particular. Our use of accessorial liability was successful in holding individuals involved in breaches of the law to account, with 9...
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Per Capita research fellow Tim Lyons
Biggest development in industrial and workplace relations in 2016? The fact that the Productivity Commission report has vanished without a trace. This is a good thing. Many of the recommendations were impractical and most of the rest just an attack on rights at work. It was politically toxic and the Government was rightly scared of it. Biggest slee...
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AMWU and CFMEU lodge fresh court action against Anglo Coal
The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) are taking Capcoal Management (Anglo Coal) to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) and the Federal Court to argue for the reinstatement of their members and delegates made redundant during union enterprise agreement (EA) strikes. The CFMEU told Wo...
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Ex-SBS TV employee loses Federal Circuit Court claim
A former presentation coordinator supervisor has lost an adverse action claim in the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) against SBS Corporation after the broadcaster arranged to transfer some staff from its technology and distribution business as part of an outsourcing agreement with another company. Jan Mcjannet claimed SBS made multiple breaches of the ...
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ACCI advocates minor tweak for domestic violence leave
Existing leave provisions in the Fair Work (FW) Act could be amended to allow for domestic violence leave without burdening businesses with extra leave entitlements, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has said. The employer group made a submission last month to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ahead of its expected determination o...
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Ex-Ashurst lawyer joins AMMA
Former Ashurst Australia employment lawyer David Parker has joined the Australian Mines and Metals Association to oversee its west coast operations. AMMA workplace relations director Amanda Mansini said the newly created role based in Perth would focus on “building a sustainable framework” for members amid “challenging market cond...
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