Source: ABC Online
30th September, 2008

A Sydney court has heard former directors and executives of James Hardie misled investors about their ability to compensate asbestos victims.

Source: ACTU
29th September, 2008

Unions will ramp up the campaign to scrap Work Choices and ensure the rights of Australian workers to collective bargaining are at the centre of a new IR system with the broadcast of two TV advertisements from today.

Source: The Age - David Rood and Ben Schneiders
29th September, 2008

Unions have increased pressure on the Federal Government over its new industrial relations laws, releasing advertisements highlighting the right of workers to bargain collectively for pay and conditions.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
26th September, 2008

Telco and utilities contractor Service Stream has recruited Macquarie Bank to advise it on how to respond to takeover interest.

Source: ABC Online
25th September, 2008

There is growing angst within the union movement over the Government's new workplace relations laws.

Source: ABC Online
25th September, 2008

Telstra CountryWide's regional manager says he does not know how many jobs could go in the Riverina as part of the company's job cutbacks.

Source: ACTU
24th September, 2008

There are gaps in Labor’s plan to scrap WorkChoices and bring in new IR laws that will put at risk collective bargaining rights for working Australians.

Source: ABC Online
24th September, 2008

Telstra's departing manager of public policy, Phil Burgess, has accused the Federal Government of dithering over broadband in his farewell speech.

Source: ABC Online
22nd September, 2008

Telstra says it cannot rule out job losses in the western New South Wales region as part of its latest restructure.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders and Leo Shanahan
19th September, 2008

Unions have stepped up the attack on Labor's workplace changes, accusing the Federal Government of betraying workers, while minor parties have warned that the proposals might not pass the Senate without changes.

Source: Herald Sun - Fleur Leyden
19th September, 2008

Telstra has formed a new business unit to focus on online and mobile content as it heads towards its vision of becoming a so-called "media-comms" company. Telstra announced the new unit yesterday, along with 800 job cuts.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
19th September, 2008

Telstra will slash 800 jobs across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in the latest move by a big employer to significantly reduce its staff.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
18th September, 2008

Some anti-strike rules introduced by the Howard government are to be retained by Labor, with workers who engage in illegal strikes to face a minimum deduction of four hours' pay and possible fines.

Source: ACTU
18th September, 2008

Unions today urged Telstra management to respect the rights of its workers to be represented by unions after the company’s offer of a non-union job contract was rejected by employees.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
16th September, 2008

Labor's much-vaunted individual contracts have proved to be as bad for employees as the agreements they replaced, the controversial Australian Workplace Agreements.

Source: ABC Online
16th September, 2008

The Victorian Trades Hall Council is concerned the Federal Government is tailoring its industrial relations policies to the needs of the businesses at the expense of workers.

Source: ACTU
16th September, 2008

Unions have called for the Federal Parliament to scrap what remains of Work Choices after revelations yet another major employer is still exploiting the Howard Government’s industrial relations laws.

Source: ACTU
15th September, 2008

After the company’s second legal defeat this week, Telstra management should now back down on its failed Work Choices strategy, sit down with unions and discuss a better pay offer to staff, say unions.

Source: ABC Online
11th September, 2008

Telstra has sacked another 14 Tasmanian workers.

Source: SMH
10th September, 2008

The Amigos may already be riding off into the sunset but not everyone is convinced that Telstra chief Sol Trujillo has engineered a success story.

Source: ACTU
9th September, 2008

Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop has confirmed that the Liberal Party still supports the parts of Work Choices that were most unfair for Australian workers say unions.

Source: ACTU
8th September, 2008

People employed under independent contracting arrangements need to have the same protections as the rest of the workforce, following a ruling of the competition watchdog.

Source: The Age - David Quilty
5th September, 2008

The national broadband network will be open to the telco's competitors.

Source: SMH
5th September, 2008

Vodafone has taken control of Crazy John's after buying a 75 per cent stake in the mobile-phone retailer from the widow of its founder, John Ilhan.

Source: ACTU
5th September, 2008

Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop is at odds with other members of her own party over her support for individual employment contracts.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
5th September, 2008

The spectre of a split up of Telstra has again reared its head after the company admitted that the Federal Government's plans for a $10 billion-plus broadband network raises the risk of structural separation.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
4th September, 2008

The ability of Commander Communications' receivers to fetch a decent price for the failed telco is in doubt because many of its lucrative government contracts expire in less than 10 months.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
4th September, 2008

Telstra has underlined the impotence of Australia's once powerful workplace umpire by this week snubbing a hearing that dealt with its bid to exclude unions from negotiations for 11,000 staff.

Source: ABC Online
3rd September, 2008

The Federal Government has opened the bidding process for companies interested in building a new national broadband network.

Source: ACTU
2nd September, 2008

Telstra has been forced into an embarrassing backdown after it was revealed the company had undercut employees’ legal entitlement to carer’s leave in a pay offer made to staff.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
2nd September, 2008

In a move described by legal experts as "highly unusual'', Telstra has snubbed the workplace umpire by not appearing at a hearing into its push to bypass unions.