Employers have welcomed an Albanese Government promise not to require union deals in order to secure work on Commonwealth-funded construction projects, as it prepares to consult on new procurement standards to stamp out criminality and inappropriate "industrial fixers".
In a case testing the extent to which employers can withhold pay during protected industrial action, the Federal Court today conducted a hearing into the AWU's claim that Chevron unlawfully deducted loading and allowances from workers during stoppages at its WA facilities.
A worker has resigned from Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital following a FWC finding that her employer can continue with a disciplinary process, after police charged her over a protest at an Israeli restaurant and a doxxing organisation revealed her identity.
Unions say 100% of their Inpex members have voted in favour of taking protected industrial action, weeks after they rejected the company's unilateral offer.
Mining unions have asked Fortescue to begin bargaining for replacement deals for two barebones non-union agreements covering iron ore workers at four Pilbara sites.
Businesses having trouble interpreting or implementing FWC orders requiring reimbursement of contractors' increased fuel costs will have a chance to state their case on Friday, the tribunal said today.
A casino manager did not mean to suggest that Crown Melbourne would use its CCTV coverage to "get" a worker if she challenged its refusal of her flexible work application to care for her sick mother, when he pointedly talked about her being under constant surveillance, a tribunal has found.
The NSW corruption watchdog has found that a consultant HR advisor for a State Government department engaged in corrupt conduct by blacklisting a company linked to an employee who made a bullying complaint after his engagement ended.
