The CFMMEU's mining and energy division is taking credit for BHP's revelation today that it will have to backpay almost 30,000 workers in its Australian operations it has shortchanged since 2010, with its share set to cost it $431 million.
The CPSU is seeking to hit Services Australia with industrial action after its members comprehensively rejected a sector-wide pay offer of 10.5% over three years, while the APSC's chief negotiator has set out an additional proposal to cut wage disparities between agencies from 26% to 18%.
A foreign exchange dealer has come up empty-handed after he overturned his dismissal on appeal, with the FWC on re-hearing the case taking little time to reject his claim that the "punishment did not fit the crime".
As the NSW Minns Labor Government gears up for a major expansion of long service leave entitlements that will include portability for gig workers, IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says it has secured a record fine against Mosaic Brands for systemic LSL underpayments.
A FWC full bench has rejected a farmworker's bid to scrap casual overtime award rates she claims prompted an employer to sideline her during a peak harvest period because she reached the maximum ordinary hours.
The FWC has rejected a union bid to bill an aged care provider 15 minutes' overtime for workers required to have rapid antigen tests before each shift, but held that the employer "could and should have done more" to clarify its position.
A tribunal has ordered a disability support service to pay a worker $10,000 damages and three months wages, after it failed to engage her because of her disability.
A Queensland LNP senator has used a Senate Estimates hearing to grill DEWR secretary Natalie James over her total remuneration package of $845,650 and why she could not remember how much she is paid when asked.
A two-year pay freeze is set to be imposed on NSW politicians earning more than a base salary and the State's high-earning bureaucrats as the Minns Labor Government vows to redirect the savings to "essential service" workers such as teachers and nurses.
The ACTU has taken aim at BHP, Qantas, Qube and CIMIC in a paper warning that employers will continue to exploit outsourcing "loopholes" to suppress wages unless Same Job, Same Pay measures extending to internal labour hire subsidiaries are passed into law.
