The WA Appeal Court has ruled that Burswood Casino had a duty to warn a night-shift employee of the risks of driving home in the pre-dawn hours, but has rejected her appeal against a lower court decision that her employer was not responsible for her losing control of her car and injuring herself.
The FWO has launched a review into the hiring of overseas employees on 417 working holiday visas, including allegations that "unscrupulous operators" are exploiting the visa requirements to attract free labour.
A car wash operator and its two managers have been fined $90,000 after the Federal Court found they had underpaid more than 350 vulnerable workers almost $180,000 between January and September 2010.
CFMEU Queensland branch secretary Michael Ravbar has denied the union banned Universal Cranes from the state's building sites, claiming that the company's refusal to comply with major project agreements resulted in head contractors excluding it.
A construction strike in pursuit of more "family friendly" rosters at the huge Curtis Island LNG projects at Gladstone in Queensland has been marked by picket lines, traffic snarls and at least two arrests.
The AIMPE has called off planned strikes in Port Hedland after being threatened with Federal Court action for notifying stoppages outside the 30-day cut-off for authorised industrial action set by the Fair Work Act.
An airport security firm's requirement that employees ring their leading hand and wait for a replacement before taking a toilet break is "entirely reasonable" and lawful, the Fair Work Commission has held, in rejecting a security officer's unfair dismissal claim.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has warned CFMEU Queensland branch secretary Michael Ravbar that his view that money from a building industry redundancy trust fund belonged to workers regardless of the "corporate angle" was "reckless", and that trustee directors in his position needed to be careful.
Port Hedland tug operator Teekay Shipping is facing four-hour strikes on three days beginning this weekend that it maintains will affect the Australian economy, after the AIMPE today notified industrial action by engineers.
