Published on 13 July 2013: Many companies have displaced their permanent and directly employed staff with hire-in personnel from labour hire agencies or independent contractors. Independent contractors are self-employed and work for businesses under a contract for their services.
Published on 03 July 2013: More and more workers are finding themselves in casual employment or working through labour hire agencies. Often this is not through choice, but because employers will often refuse to hire workers on any other basis.
Published on 02 July 2013: On the 21 January 2013, the Honourable Len Roberts-Smith RFD, QC was appointed to lead the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (the Taskforce). On the same day, the Taskforce's terms of reference were announced.
Published on 02 July 2013: The Minister for Defence announces a series of reviews into aspects of Defence culture, including the DLA Piper Review, a Personal Conduct Review, a Review of the Management of Incidents and Complaints and a review of the treatment of women in the ADF.
Published on 02 July 2013: The Irish government has announced a redress fund to compensate women who were effectively used as slave labour in laundries run by the Magdalene Sisters.
Published on 26 June 2013: One of the major misconceptions held by casual and labour hire workers is that they are not entitled to much of a benefit under WorkCover even if they do lodge a claim.
Published on 19 June 2013: The insecurity and uncertainty that is at the heart of casual and labour hire work practices is eroding health and safety standards in Australian workplaces.
What about compensation for child migrants?
Published on 06 June 2013: Britain has announced it will pay compensation at a total proposed cost of 12.5 million pounds to thousands of Kenyans who were sexually abused and tortured in detention camps during the 1950s.
Published on 06 June 2013: All of the major churches have now given evidence before the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the handling of allegations of criminal abuse against children.
Published on 06 June 2013: Former High Court judge Sir Anthony Hart who chairs the Northern Ireland Inquiry into historical child abuse has called on Irish born Australians to come forward and tell their stories of abuse.