BHP Coal could face industrial action at its seven mainly coking coal mines in the Bowen Basin next month, with mineworkers likely to vote up a strike ballot that closes on June 2, while FWA has rejected the company's proposition about how the ballot should be conducted.
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has called on employers to be vocal if they believe there are problems with the Fair Work Act, saying the Opposition will only make IR changes if there is public support for it to do so.
There is a wages breakout, the Fair Work Act is destroying the economy, Australia is grinding to a halt with the skills shortage, and unions aren’t prepared to engage constructively with employers - not so, says ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence, who has gone onto the front foot in seeking to dispel what he says are IR "myths".
MUA members at Patrick’s Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle container terminals are likely to lift their protected bans this morning, after the company stopped paying them and refused to use their labour.
Three hundred employees at a Victorian private prison will receive an additional pay rise if their personal leave over 12 months is collectively lower than 95 hours per capita, under a deal struck with the CPSU Victoria which has been overwhelmingly voted up.
Fair Work Australia has this afternoon approved an AIPA application to seek authorisation from Qantas long haul pilots to take industrial action that could begin in July.
MUA declines Patrick invitation for FWA to resolve remaining claims; CFMEU wins $5000 penalty against Abigroup; and Searle takes seat in NSW Upper House.
The Federal Government's amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act - including establishing breastfeeding as a separate ground and extending existing family responsibility protections - have passed through parliament, but with the Opposition successful in removing protections from indirect discrimination on family responsibility grounds.
The NSW Government has introduced a bill that gives it unprecedented power over pay and conditions for the State's 400,000 public servants - effectively gutting the State IRC's role.
Patrick has notified its container terminal employees that it won't pay them or allow them to perform work while they participate in week-long partial work bans that begin today and tomorrow, while Qantas long-haul pilots have today applied for a ballot to authorise industrial action, and FWA has granted the ballot order sought by licensed aircraft mechanical engineers.
