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.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong will over the coming weeks speak to unions, employer bodies and construction companies before deciding on a replacement for outgoing CFMEU administrator Mark Irving KC, whose shock resignation takes effect in June.
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.
Preliminary federal government data shows that AI is reducing growth in the most vulnerable jobs, but that it has been positive overall, Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishwoth will tell a conference this morning, while rejecting calls for unions to have the right to veto the technology in the workplace.
