Since IR reformers won’t explain why we need it, we’ve looked at what WorkChoices accomplished. It wasn’t much.
Industrial disputes
Inconvenient labour data for the deregulationistas
February unemployment data shows more solid growth in the economy, and the forecast rise in industrial disputes hasn’t materialised.
Industrial peace in our time?
As Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard turns up the pressure on the Coalition in an attempt to swiftly usher Labor’s industrial relations laws through parliament, new Roy Morgan research shows Australians expect little trouble at t’mill in the year ahead, writes Christian Kerr.
