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Unions have given notice of a protected 24-hour strike at Chevron's Gorgon LNG project this Friday, followed by shorter stoppages over two days next week.

Blackmores rewards staff with six weeks' bonus; Telstra employees opt for higher pay over redundancy choice; MBA construction wages report sets "backdrop" to EBA wage negotiations.

Long-serving Fair Work Commissioner John Lewin retires this week after nearly 30 years of conciliating and arbitrating industrial disputes.

FWO commences action against 7-Eleven for underpayments; Employer fails to gain costs order against unreasonable applicant; Tribunal orders clearance to work with children for "naïve" teacher

United Voice will argue in the FWC that proposed pay increases at some outlets of the Grill'd hamburger chain do not meet the BOOT test.

Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has rejected union applications for him to stand down from the inquiry on the grounds of apprehended bias, while acknowledging they could still apply to a court to make such a ruling.

The FWC has rejected the CFMEU's claim that the Port Kembla Coat Terminal enterprise agreement allows the "sandwiching" of long service and annual leave and has instead preferred the employer's view that long service leave cannot be broken up and substituted for periods of annual leave for the ultimate benefit of the employee.

The FWC has told an employee who claimed he was bullied following a single altercation that the general protections regime may offer better redress than a stop-order.

A full bench of the Federal Court has roughly halved the compensation awarded to a married couple who were prevented from working for Skilled Group's Offshore Marine Services, after the MUA appealed the way the payout was assessed.

The Federal Circuit Court has questioned why the FWBC chose not to prosecute the director of a phoenixed bricklaying company that failed to pay correct pay and entitlements to several "daily hire" workers.