workplace

Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws update

David Jacobson
March 19, 2012 22:24

Safe Work Australia has issued an update on its progress on the national system: The WHS laws commenced in the Commonwealth, ACT, NSW, NT and QLD on 1 January 2012. The WHS laws have passed in Tasmania with a commencement date of 1 January 2013. Six further Codes of Practice have been endorsed as...

Mark Twain on employment reference law

Walter Olson
March 12, 2012 14:16

Author/attorney Tim Sandefur dropped us a line as follows: “I’ve lately been reading Mark Twain’s book Following The Equator, and I came across a passage in which he talks about employment recommendations. What he says immediately made me think of you — how employment law...

Michael Rothenberg, Public Interest Lawyer: In Memoriam

March 01, 2012 14:18

In this podcast, Professor David Yamada, founding director of the New Workplace Institute at Suffolk University Law School, recalls the life of Michael Rothenberg, a gifted public interest lawyer in New York City who died last week at the age of 47.In this podcast, Professor David Yamada, founding...

New challenges for global groups with French operations

February 17, 2012 10:03

This post was written by Nicolas Sauvage De-industrialization is the hot theme of the presidential campaign, regardless of the political spectrum. Solutions brought forward by candidates are more or less concrete, more or less likely. They show little if any understanding of how globalization has...

New challenges for global groups with French operations

February 17, 2012 10:03

This post was written by Nicolas Sauvage De-industrialization is the hot theme of the presidential campaign, regardless of the political spectrum. Solutions brought forward by candidates are more or less concrete, more or less likely. They show little if any understanding of how globalization has...