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Development
August 20 2002 - With more than
330,000 New Apprentices currently in training, industry has well
and truly given its stamp of approval says Peter Hendy.
April 8 2002 - ANTA Board chair Stuart
Hornery recently announced the establishment of an enterprise and
training provider working group.
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HR Articles - 2002
Job market
September 17 2002 - A fifth of all employed people consider themselves to be
employed on a casual basis,
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August 8 2002 - Two thirds (67%) of people retrenched in the previous three years were back in employment
by July 2001, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
May 17 2002 - 40 per cent of Australians would like to be self-employed and/or their own
boss, according to a new survey by global recruitment agency, Kelly Services.
April 3 2002 - More than a third (39%) of the country's unemployed are aged between 15
and 24, according to recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
February 13 2002 -
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) released its Federal Budget submission, calling
for urgent Govermment action to commit itself to the next phase of welfare reform.
Diversity
December 3 2002 - Governments and employers need to reform the workplace in
order to stop older workers from making an early exit.
May 17 2002 - The Brotherhood of St Laurence argues that the Federal Government should
renegotiate its proposed budget policy of moving people with disabilities onto unemployment
benefits.
March 20 2002 - A new international workplace survey has found that more than one in five Australians
believe they have suffered discrimination in the workplace, and the majority of these
say they are still living with the consequences of this discrimination.
Flexibility
May 2 2002 - A recent survey by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
showed that almost one-quarter of a million (or 8%) of NSW workers 'teleworked'
in the three months to October 2001.
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Employee Relations
October 3 2002 - A report from acirrt, shows that
an ‘ordinary’ working week includes the weekend in almost a quarter of current
registered enterprise agreements.
October 3 2002 - Employees are much less likely to be
consulted about important decisions affecting a business, and are
less likely to have access to training claims McClelland.
General HR
March 11 2002 - Unexpected sectors of the services industry are driving the recent
improvement in Australian industry productivity.
Rewards
February 14 2003 - The Australian Hotels Association says that the annual minimum award wage rise
has meant many of member hotels have had to reduce casual staff
numbers in an effort to afford the wage rise.
Health and Safety
November 15 2002 - The Law Society of NSW is calling for a review of current
workers compensation laws in New South Wales, arguing that employees injured 'on
the job' are not getting the damages they deserve.
July 25 2002 - Working-class people are more likely to get the message
if workplace smoking cessation programs are combined with other occupational health and
safety messages rather than being used on a stand-alone basis.
March 18 2002 - Victorian employers with smelly workplaces polluted by smokers can take advantage
of a new telephone advisory service.
Legislation
March 13 2002 - Robert McClelland says
it is clear that many small business operators have unnecessary
fears about unfair dismissal laws.
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