The threat of coordinated strikes across BHP's workforce at its crucial Pilbara iron ore export hub is set to rise, with production operators likely to join sparkies and maintenance workers in securing the right to take protected action.

The Mining and Energy Union says a two-week lockout of Peabody workers at the United Wambo Washery is an "extraordinary response" given how close they are to reaching an agreement.

Industrial action has ceased at hydrocarbons producer Inpex after it reached an in-principle agreement with the Offshore Alliance containing what the unions claim are "great" pay rises they claim will set the standard for negotiations underway for a new Shell Prelude agreement, while they have credited the FWC's interest-based bargaining efforts with hastening a resolution.

In the first fully contested Federal Court case to consider new s-xual harassment protections in the Fair Work Act, a judge has relied heavily on a FIFO apprentice's dinnertime revelation to her parents that her supervisor asked her for a "bl-w job" to find he s-xually harassed her.

The Queensland IRC has ruled that an employer is not breaching the law by requiring candidates for a disability services role to have an impairment.

Australia's IR system requires a "complete overhaul", One Nation leader Pauline Hanson told a National Press Club luncheon today, while promising to sack S-x Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody and Human Rights Commission President Hugh de Kretser if her party wins government.

The Victorian working from home legislation "aims to strike a balance" between making remote work available to more workers and the "operational realities" of businesses, partly by creating a comprehensive "reasonableness" test, Premier Jacinta Allan told State Parliament today.

The Albanese Government has today agreed to provide $3.6 billion to fund childcare workers' wage rises for a further two years, after they threatened to walk out over feared pay cuts.

ARN Media Limited will pay sacked KIIS FM broadcaster Kyle Sandilands more than $12 million and provide further support of $1.5 million to settle his general protections and breach of contract claims, but the parallel case brought by his co-host, Jackie 'O' Henderson, remains on foot, it told the ASX today.

A recruiter has failed to win $50,000 compensation from Bluescope Steel for allegedly sacking him following his complaints about being bullied by its HR team, after a judge took into account that he had previously lied to the FWC and "embellished" his résumé.