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Steven Amendola

July 2024

The stranglehold that the CFMEU has on projects in Victoria affects everyone in the country.

Fair Work Act isn’t much help dealing with the CFMEU

Stronger rules and safeguards are needed, along with an audit of the EBAs the union has signed, if proper governance is finally to be installed at the CFMEU.

April 2023

Tony Burke’s IR amendments will be full of unintended consequences.

New IR laws will make companies an open book

Employers trying to escape multi-employer bargaining will have little choice but to reveal their business model to the Fair Work Commission.

November 2022

What this messy saga highlights, yet again, is just how removed unions are from society’s norms.

CFMEU divorce facing more obstacles than Henry VIII did

The same laws and standards governing everything from corporate demergers to the end of marriages should also apply to union splits.

September 2022

Casual employees are overwhelmingly choosing to remain as casual employees.

‘Insecure work’ scare is a solution looking for a problem

Efforts to make casual work more secure will be cold comfort for workers who end up losing their jobs.

July 2022

Cameron Smith on his way to success in the British Open.

When big bucks in sport look mightier than storied contests

The rebel golf tour is once again tempting sportspeople away from competitions long seen as historic pinnacles. But will it bring a great legal stoush too?

April 2022

Being Albo’s ex-chief of staff makes Michael Choueifate a valuable commodity.

Softly, softly Labor could wind back the industrial relations clock

Behind the politically calibrated rhetoric lies all manner of reforms alien to today’s modern workplace.

December 2021

Why wouldn’t the MUA want to maintain an old-fashioned labour supply monopoly?

Change of competition law can bring sanity back to the wharves

The best way to clean up the waterfront is to scrap the exemptions from competition laws that protect the maritime union’s labour monopoly.

December 2020

The Government had long signalled it would tread warily, still politically haunted by Work Choices.

Howls of outrage from unions and Labor show IR honeymoon is over

The omnibus IR bill sensibly tries to extend the emergency COVID-19 measures for those sectors hardest hit. But there is precious little genuine reform of the rigid award system here.

July 2020

The virus has changed the nature of work. IR needs to change too.

Awards were made flexible in the crisis. Why should we go back?

COVID-19 has exposed a misnamed 'modern' award system that is more focused on its own survival than on the future of jobs for workers.

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