The FWC will this evening hear Shell Australia's bid for orders to suspend protected action and impose a cooling-off period at its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas platform, where output has been disrupted following continuing industrial strife.
A newly-elected Greens senator with a long history as a labour market researcher will chair a new select committee inquiry into work and care, with the aim of creating "an economy that is care-inclusive and a system that narrows inequality rather than widens it".
Tug boat operator Svitzer Australia has accused three maritime unions of trying to pressure it with protected action that starts tomorrow, ahead of the FWC hearing its enterprise agreement termination bid that unions are using as the spearhead of their campaign for Labor to stop employers using the strategy to gain the upper hand.
The ANMF will continue to pursue a nursing home it says should be paying members for the time it takes to perform a COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test before entering the facility, despite the FWC find it unclear "what possible basis" existed to make such a claim.
The Albanese Labor Government is rushing through legislation to close a loophole that could add billions of the dollars to the defined benefit superannuation entitlements of about 10,000 federal public sector employees who have been posted overseas over the past three decades.
The AWU will trial a centralised "strategic bargaining initiative" with major national employers - like Boral, Hanson and John Holland - because they are "exploiting" the union's state-by-state, site-by-site approach to enterprise negotiations.
The CBA is rolling out new contracts for staff on legacy individual flexibility arrangements and admitting ahead of a Federal Court hearing that the IFAs breached the Fair Work Act, but the FSU says it must get the process right for those wanting to revert to the agreement.
Key independent Senator David Pocock says he laughed when recently described as a kingmaker, preferring the role of "peacebroker in the 47th Parliament", ahead of the upper house today considering an Opposition bid to strike down the regulation that guts the ABCC's powers.
