Browsing: Labour hire

Labour hire organisations have been specifically addressed in a proposed health and safety code for the Queensland call centre industry. read more

An RCSA survey reports increasing optimism that the industry is picking up, with the overwhelming majority of RCSA members predicting the market will improve over the next three months. read more

The central thrust of the Finance Sector Union's bargaining push with the Commonwealth Bank will be to enforce controls on the use of temp labour and ensure that temps receive site rates. read more

A ruling by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission has closed a potential loophole in the state's industrial law that allowed companies to set up secondary employment entities to avoid the State's contractor deeming provisions, according to the powerful Liquor and Miscellaneous Workers Union. read more

The powerful manufacturing workers union is stepping up pressure on key NSW recruitment companies to accede to a statewide wages and conditions deal that requires monthly payments of redundancy, leave and super entitlements into a trust fund. read more

The NSW Department of Industrial Relations is hosting a series of seminars aimed to ensure labour hire firms and host employers meet their legal responsibilities to workers. read more

Western Australia is the first State to define labour hire companies as employers for industrial relations purposes, in legislation that also increases casual loading. read more

A strong December quarter helped boost Skilled Engineering's half-yearly result, but margins in the key labour hire business continued to fall. read more

An important Federal Court ruling clarifies the definition of "ordinary hours" for the purpose of paying superannuation contributions. The case is vital for labour hire companies calculating their SGCs. read more

A West Australian employer has been ordered to compensate workers it paid at a lower rate than other staff after the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission found it had created a labour hire company in an attempt to contract out of its agreed over-award wage rates. read more