BHP says it has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of power supply to its Pilbara mines and ports, as 60 workers who operate its remote electricity grid threaten what it says is its WA iron ore operation's first protected action this century.
The biggest mover on Labor's same-job, same-pay laws is using the Closing Loopholes review to call for a major expansion to include parity of conditions for on-hire workers, while capturing associated entities and tightening the exemption for service providers.
An early childhood education trainee has won more than $10,000 compensation after the FWC found her employer had no reason to sack her by text based on "vague" examples of misconduct and failure to complete a qualification for which she had not yet been assessed.
The RBA was not required to pay a senior employee during a seven-month period where he maintained he was "ready and willing" to work as long as it did not involve consecutive days, "high stress" assignments or meeting with HR, the FWC has found.
At its current pace, workplaces will not be free of racism for 118 years, a new report has found, and many employers fail to use the most effective measures to address and prevent racism.
A judge has flagged compensation of more than $600,000 for a former St Vincent de Paul Society senior manager unlawfully sacked following a "sham" HR probe, but declined to award more after finding she misled the court and exaggerated her incapacity.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic dismissed for sending "intimate and romantic" messages to a PhD student he supervised.
The dedicated union for air traffic controllers has lost the first part of a demarcation dispute, after the FWC accepted that it and the TWU have overlapping coverage of Airservices Australia air traffic controllers.
The Albanese Government's revised legislation to cap the concessional tax treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts with balances exceeding $3 million has passed unamended after winning Greens support.
