by AIER admin | May 7, 2014 | General
A forum of community, academic, research and union leaders met in Sydney on 15 April to set out a blueprint of good government for Australia. AIER President , The Honourable Paul Munro AO, was amongst leaders from the St Vincent De Paul Society, Uniting Church, ACOSS,...
by AIER admin | Dec 13, 2013 | General
The Government’s Bill to amend the Registered Organisations Act passed the House of Representatives on its last sitting day for 2013. The Bill seeks to create a new Registered Organisations Commission to monitor and regulate registered organisations and to provide it...
by AIER admin | Dec 10, 2013 | General
The question of whether our industrial relations laws should be radically altered under the current Abbott government was the subject of this year’s AIER Ron McCallum Debate. Two hundred of Australia’s leading human resources, industrial relations and labour law...
by AIER admin | Oct 30, 2013 | General
AIER warmly congratulates our Executive member Mark Irving, winner of this year’s Centenary Book Award. Created by legal publisher LexisNexus in 1984, the Centenary Book Award encourages and rewards the highest standards of authorship in legal publishing, and...
by AIER admin | Oct 30, 2013 | General
Deputy President Anne Gooley of the Fair Work Commission has rejected an application by restaurant and catering industry employers to abolish weekend penalty rates in the sector amongst increasing clamor for change from employers and employer organisations. The FWC...
by AIER admin | Oct 22, 2013 | General
AIER executive director Lisa Heap has identified some of the critical issues facing Australian workers today in her article on insecure work published by the ABC’s The Drum.