Hundreds of BHP workers at Australia's biggest iron export port are set to escalate their industrial action campaign, after union members at mass meetings last night voted for a 24-hour ban on ship loading, followed by a 24-hour strike, while sparkies running the company's crucial power network serving its mines will also go out.
A federal agency's concerns that a dispute resolution specialist will miss out on face-to-face connections by working from home 100% of the time while looking after his child are among reasonable business grounds for refusing his request, the FWC has held.
An employer that defeated a discrimination claim after it failed to buy an ergonomic chair to accommodate a tutor's disability has lost a bid for almost $130,000 in legal costs even though the worker repeatedly failed to attend hearings and filed material replete with irrelevant allegations.
Mining giant Peabody has shelved plans for a third lockout of workers at its Wambo Coal Handling Preparation Plant after the MEU launched a legal challenge to the company's right to take the industrial action.
A consulate must compensate a driver whose contract demanded he retire at 65, with a senior FWC member finding no reason why India's government cannot revise its "discriminatory" compulsory retirement policy for Australian-based employees.
Federal Court judge Michael Lee says he is "disturbed" that he is being asked by the TWU's external lawyers, "at the heels of the hunt", to extend what initially appeared to a realistic timetable to distribute tens of millions of dollars to more than a thousand workers who had their jobs unlawfully outsourced by Qantas.
Recognising rostering as skilled labour should be a reform priority for the public health system, according to a newly-released report, as the NSWNMA urges the Minns Government to collaborate on recommendations aimed at delivering "good flex" and improving retention.
CPI eases; Prosecutor to accompany royal commission, says Carroll; Workplace protection orders regime for Victoria; and New assistant national secretary for AMWU.
"Unfortunate" statutory language means that a state MP can "dispense" with an electoral officer for allegedly discriminatory reasons, leaving the staffer unable to fight the sacking, a court has found.
