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Labour Review issue no. 94 - October 2002

OHS
The Legal Concept of Work-Related Injury and Disease in Australian OHS and Workers' Compensation Systems
An analysis of the concept of "work-relatedness" in the Australian OHS and Workers' Compensation systems.
[ Full Story ]
Termination
Unfair Dismissal Laws: the Problem of Application to Small Business.
Current unfair dismissal laws give effect to ILO Conventions and Recommendations. However there is considerable scope for exemptions under the Workplace Relations Act
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Termination
Fried Chicken, Unfair Dismissal and Job Creation: One of These Things is Not Like the Other.
The government's ongoing crusade on unfair dismissal laws is supposedly based on job creation and aiding small business
[ Full Story ]
Termination
Giving Teeth to Statutory Obligations to Consult Over Redundancies
The collapse of HIH Insurance, OneTel and Ansett, and large scale redundancies arising from restructuring at a range of other establishments also raise the issue of workers' rights to be consulted about substantial change in the workplace.
[ Full Story ]
corporations
Corporations: Time to Blame Time to Change
The actions of governments are under continual scrutiny but the often greater adverse impacts of corporate behaviour on the well being of the nation and its citizens gets less attention or informed debate.
[ Full Story ]
superannuation
Spotlight on Superannuation
Frank Lowy raised $1.25billion in an afternoon so that he could become the second biggest owner of shopping centres in the USA. The money came from Australian superannuation funds and the money created no jobs, services or infrastructure in Australia.
[ Full Story ]
superannuation
Cowboys In Superland: The Democratisation Of Risk
The corporate collapses and their effects on global stock markets have shaved billions of the value of our super funds, and many Australians are now seeing their super shrink rather than grow.
[ Full Story ]
Work Hours
Wage/Hour Class Actions
There has been "an explosion" of cases in the USA where workers are claiming to have been cheated out of overtime pay. Tens of thousands of workers in a diversity of occupations have filed collective or class actions within the last few years.
[ Full Story ]


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