Browsing: Labour hire

Major salary survey points to 3.9% growth this year; Aquent snares former senior TMP exec for Japan; Hallis rolls out major upgrade to website and systems; RCSA survey shows contracting up; Strong international contingent for RCSA conference. read more

The recruitment industry may find itself a key player in helping to solve the looming imbalances in the world's labour supply, if forecasts in a new international study come to pass. read more

The Equal Opportunity Commission of Victoria is running an inquiry into possibly discriminatory practices in the recruitment industry. read more

IT hiring study indicates swing back to contracting; Adecco electricians strike now longest in union's history; Bunty Paramor retires. read more

The Queensland IRC has refused to accept an unfair dismissal application by a casual labour hire employee who had worked continuously on the same job for 13 months, but for both the host employer and the labour supplier. read more

A South Australian court has rejected a manufacturing company's novel argument that it could not be charged for failing to ensure the safety of a labour hire employee. read more

ICA urges ILO to butt out as conference begins in Switzerland; Euro temps laws derailed; bluecollar.com.au secures Skilled job ads; and Westpac sells small parcel of Julia Ross shares. read more

Courts in Australia and the UK have wrongly found host employers to be the true employer of labour hire workers, according to a lawyer from a prominent employment law firm. read more

In a major blow to labour hire companies using the Odco independent contracting system, a tribunal full bench has ruled today that an on-hire worker under the system was an employee. read more

A "dire shortage" of hard statistical knowledge about recruitment and on-hire services in Australia is hampering the industry's strategic planning in the industry, says Manpower ceo Varina Nissen. read more