The FWC has refused to approve two deals voted up by "full-time" workers but expressed solely to cover casuals, and nor has it let the employer correct the alleged typo to say they cover "permanent" staff given they "clearly" contemplate casual employment.
After Woodside workers this week endorsed protected action at three key gas platforms off WA's north-west coast, Chevron workers are voting on whether to strike at two onshore facilities serving its Gorgon and Wheatstone projects, in a move potentially causing even more uncertainty for global LNG supply chains.
Sharan Burrow speaking next week; Peace deal for National Rugby League; Walton, O'Dwyer appointed to NRF board; and Big response to price gouging inquiry, says ACTU's McManus.
The RBA will put its bargaining offer directly to employees this month, governor Philip Lowe told an inquiry this morning, after failing to reach agreement with FSU.
ACCI has secured more time for interveners to make their views known on single interest multi-employer bargaining provisions that the IEU's WA branch is testing in a bid to compel negotiations on behalf of general and education support workers in Catholic schools.
The NSW IRC has upheld the sacking of a paramedic who livestreamed on Tik Tok her attendance of an unlawful COVID-19 anti-lockdown protest and criticised the "heavy-handed" police response, during a period when she had been ordered to self-isolate after exposure to a positive case.
Workers employed by major hydrocarbons producer Woodside have overwhelmingly endorsed protected action at three key gas platforms off WA's north-west coast.
The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation to establish the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory HR agency, while overhauling 39-year-old legislation covering the employment of parliamentary staff.
A federal parliamentary inquiry has recommended changing the House of Representatives' rules to prohibit MPs using s-xist, racist, homophobic and "otherwise exclusionary or discriminatory" terms against each other, in response to former s-x discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins' Set the Standard report.
Scott Morrison's former policy director has been given extra time to pursue an adverse action case alleging discrimination against one of Australia's best-connected lobbying firms, which claims he resigned after it denied him a stake in the business.
