Category Archives: IR

Self-employed tradies and freelance consultants logging long hours

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Gene Tunny

According to Dr Phil, “there’s a lot of dogs after them bones.” Independent contractors, such as self-employed tradies and freelance consultants, instinctively know this and often take on whatever work becomes available regardless of their capacity to undertake it, because they … Continue reading →

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Queensland’s retail trading hours are perplexing

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Gene Tunny

Ex-Productivity Commissioner Judith Sloan has a great post over at Catallaxy Files in which she criticises Queensland’s antiquated regulations around retail trading hours (Beautiful one day, closed the next). She also notices a perverse outcome of the simplification of awards … Continue reading →

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Grattan Institute appears afraid to champion labour market reform

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Gene Tunny

When Australians go to work, on average, they only produce around 85% of what workers in the US produce. Academics and policy wonks have spent a lot of time debating whether this is due to our remoteness from the world … Continue reading →

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