Protected strike by Victorian teachers on August 19

The AEU says the State's public school teachers, principals and support workers will walk out for 24 hours on August 19 if the Carroll Government fails to put forward an "acceptable" revised bargaining offer.


Wildcat teachers' strike on curriculum in Victoria

As Victoria's education minister Ben Carroll takes the helm as State Premier, he is facing a potentially unauthorised teachers strike and calls from the AEU to provide a revised pay offer, as the union's branch council meets to consider its next steps.


Tick for docking annual leave during industrial action

The FWC has upheld a coal mining company's right to stop accrual of annual leave for employees when they take industrial action or are locked out, in a decision with potential implications for the wider industry.


New judge tells of perilous start as a Weet-Bix kid

A toddler who lost his hair after his liberal mother allowed him to exercise his choice to follow a diet of nothing but Weet-Bix has become the latest addition to the NSW IRC's judicial ranks.


48 hours of industrial action at BHP iron ore port

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.


Reasonable to reject 100% WFH bid: FWC

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.


No costs as significant impairments explained lengthy delays

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.


Peabody abandons lockout before test case in FWC

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.


FWC pans consulate's "fixed-term" retirement policy

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.


Qantas case judge unhappy about one-minute-to-midnight bid

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.


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