DEEWR has launched the dedicated resource sector "jobs board" that the federal government promised after the announcement of the first enterprise migration agreement for Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill project.
Fast-growing construction and contract mining company Macmahon has in the past year developed an in-house labour supply strategy it says has provided 40% of its new employees at half the cost of previous arrangements.
A full court of the Federal Court has dismissed the AMIEU's bid to overturn a finding that it was reasonable for a company to require it to meet workers in a training room near managers' offices rather than in the lunchroom, which it preferred.
FWA has called on Toll Transport to explain why it didn't back up serious public allegations it made about the behaviour while in the US of a TWU official and three delegates - including that they were part of a Teamsters-led group, some wearing horror masks, that intimidated non-union employees - with disciplinary action against them.
Fair Work Australia has declined to wait for an employer-sponsored secret ballot before making a majority support determination, ruling that an employee petition met the Act's requirements.
The Federal Court's Justice Geoffrey Flick today described the decision to merge HSU entities to form HSU East as "silly", and outlined his views on a possible scheme of administration.
The number of general protections applications lodged with Fair Work Australia in a quarter has exceeded the 700 mark for the first time, while unfair dismissal claims have also continued to climb, according to the tribunal's latest data.
A new four-year agreement that locks-in individual pay-setting arrangements at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam uranium mine ahead of a massive expansion of the facility is before FWA for approval today.
