“In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive”
Welcome to the Maguire Consulting Blog. The quote above is from Dr Jordan Peterson, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto. It perfectly incapsulates the unfashionable, but enlightened view that truth emerges from the contest of ideas, often contentious and sometimes offensive.
The world of business and employee relations is fertile ground for debate and opinions. The aim of this blog is to critically analyse the issues that impact upon Australian businesses in areas of greatest importance to their success. Issues such as public policy, productivity, innovation, competition policy, small business support, employment regulation, workplace health and safety, workplace rights laws, and superannuation.
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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air” The political maelstrom of workplace law and union governance in Australia resembles the dark moral tale foretold by the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Ambition, deceit, paranoia, bullying, violence and…
The Annual Wage Review Panel at the Fair Work Commission is deluding itself if it believes that industry by industry minimum wage decisions are inimical to the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value. Far from the finely balanced system of work value based wages claimed by the Panel…
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) claims the gap between men and women’s pay has increased to a record high of 18.8%. Referencing the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Average Weekly Earnings, the Agency spokesperson claims that the pay gap is widening. Full-time adult male…
Australian’s have been conditioned through nightly news stories of union corruption, mismanagement, fraud and thuggery. The Royal Commission into Union Governance and Corruption hearings have uncovered slush funds, use of bikie gangs to intimidate builders, extortion, and interference with…