The ETU's WA branch is pushing to bargain for a separate agreement for continuing electrical, instrumentation or plumbing workers at the massive Pluto 2 LNG expansion, to uncouple from employees who will be demobilised as the construction phase ends, and is urging workers to vote down a pay offer that "does not pass the pub test".
Dental therapists and assistants covered by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers award would have FWC-proposed pay increases of up to 35% phased in over three years from January 1, under a consent position reached between employers and unions in a major gender-based undervaluation case.
A MEU prompt has spurred a host employer subject to same-job, same-pay orders to fulfil its statutory obligation to tell the FWC about a recently-engaged labour-supplier.
The ETU's WA branch has secured the first agreement in the State covering a green energy facility in a transition hotspot, and says it proves that the shift to renewables does not have to cost workers their pay and conditions.
Unions are urging NT public sector workers to vote down a 3% annual wage offer that complies with the Government's pay cap and reduces job security, after police voted up a record above-cap pay deal, raising questions about fairness.
The Federal Court has today rejected BHP Coal's bid to stay the same-job, same-pay orders for its Bowen Basin mines, which had been due to take effect within days.
The Federal Court will rule on Wednesday on BHP Coal's bid to stay the crucial FWC full bench rulings to issue same-job, same-pay orders for its Bowen Basin mines, after it revealed the decisions would impose extra costs of just $20 million to $30 million a year, when it had issued dire warnings in 2023 that it faced an impost of $1.3 billion dollars annually across its operations.
The QNMU is backing "in the strongest terms" a Crisafulli Liberal Government pay offer said to retain a nation-leading edge for most nurses and midwives by boosting their "earning potential", while public school teachers have accepted a Queensland IRC recommendation to pause industrial action for a month.
An employer that remunerated a live-in caretaker by providing him housing rather than wages must pay him him $108,000 in unpaid entitlements, following an appeal ruling affirming he had been engaged as a part-time employee.
The MUA says it has secured a new deal at Hutchison Ports that "slams the door on automation", while members at the Port of Melbourne's "robo-terminal" are in line for big pay rises after endorsing a VICT agreement that boosts consultation over AI.
