The first round of protected industrial action by train drivers at BHP's Pilbara iron ore operations will kick off tomorrow with limited bans after talks yesterday failed to deliver a breakthrough.
A FWC full bench has upheld a ruling that BHP must continue to deduct a $60 weekly housing subsidy from remote mineworkers' pay, saying that the company halted the deductions to remove tenancy rights, rather than as an "act of gratuitous generosity".
The ILO's governing body has asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague for an urgent advisory opinion on whether a crucial labour convention on freedom of association extends to workers having a right to strike.
The CFMMEU won't be proceeding with a potential High Court challenge to the ruling that it unlawfully dismissed two "whistleblower" officials, Andrew Quirk and Brian Miller, electing instead to pay out more than half a million dollars in compensation to them.
ANZ's plan to "force" workers to return to the office for half of the working week is "short-sighted", "antiquated" and "punitive", according to the Finance Sector Union, which is also urging members at the RBA to reject a second unilateral bargaining offer.
Shine Lawyers says the exclusion of thousands of SDA members from its McDonald's class action will "inform future interplay" between union and non-union representative proceedings, while a full court ruling has set a "powerful precedent" for using collective action to protect workers' rights.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will next week introduce amendments to the Closing Loopholes legislation after striking a third deal with employer and industry groups.
Woolworths Group breached good faith bargaining obligations by circulating a Big W deal struck with the SDA and the AWU before giving RAFFWU a chance to consider it, but the FWC has refused to delay the vote as it would not significantly alter the offer.
The FWC has extended time for a worker to lodge an adverse action case, finding that a delay in receiving workers compensation payments prevented him from seeing his psychologist for an acute stress disorder, which justified the 38-day delay.
The High Court has this afternoon declined to hear DEWR's challenge to a ruling that limits funds available to pay employee entitlements when a company goes under.
