Yesterday
Mining industry to spend $24m to derail IR laws
Rio Tinto, BHP and Glencore are spending big on the minerals council’s campaign to stop Labor’s “same job, same pay” laws for labour hire workers.
- David Marin-Guzman
Rally is a ‘communication meeting’ workers should be paid for: CFMEU
Builders are calling on the workplace umpire to intervene over the CFMEU’s demands that members who attend a union rally about silica dust be paid.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Review
India’s outsource industry is shrinking
The top players in the sector contracted their payrolls by more than 21,000 in the three months to September.
- Andy Mukherjee
This Month
Wharfie strikes causing delays that ‘could empty stores at Christmas’
The wharfies’ union has escalated industrial action at DP World terminals across the country, causing shipping delays of up to eight days.
- David Marin-Guzman
Virgin ground crew step towards strike for new pay deal
Ground crew could walk off the job by mid-November, with cabin crew and pilots not far behind them as pay talks sour at Virgin Australia.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
Menulog warns of $15 price rise unless value of gig work enshrined
Managing director Morten Belling says the Closing Loopholes Bill does not recognise that workers prefer the “dynamic earnings” of gig work that lifts pay with demand.
- David Marin-Guzman
WA LNG strike averted through 11th-hour deal
The resolution to the Chevron dispute brings to an end industrial action that has plagued WA LNG plants for over two months and sparked gas price spikes in Europe.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and David Marin-Guzman
DoorDash fears food delivery prices could triple under gig worker laws
The on-demand delivery service claims “the sky is effectively the limit” under the government’s bill to set minimum conditions for gig workers.
- David Marin-Guzman
Three-day dairy strike to upset milk supplies
More than 150 truck drivers for dairy giant Saputo have walked off the job for 48 hours and are set to be followed by 1400 Victorian dairy processing workers.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Opinion
Radical casual work overhaul will cost jobs
That is not just the belief of increasingly anxious big and small organisations across the country; it is the considered view of a leading industrial relations barrister.
- Bran Black
- Exclusive
- Interest rates
RBA staff consider going on strike over 11pc pay rise
RBA economists may take industrial action after the central bank offered staff a three-year, 11 per cent pay deal opposed by the Finance Sector Union.
- Michael Read
Team Global Express supervisor took scotch, deck reno from truckies
A Melbourne dispatcher took the Christine Holgate-led company to the Fair Work Commission claiming unfair dismissal.
- David Marin-Guzman
Unions refuse to back down on Chevron LNG strikes
Chevron workers have gone against the umpire’s recommendations to cancel industrial action this Thursday.
- David Marin-Guzman
BHP urged to hit exec pay for $445m payroll blunder
Proxy advisers reckon BHP has gone soft on senior executives over a $445 million payroll blunder that shortchanged 34,000 past and present employees.
- Peter Ker
Uber warns of 85pc price rise under Labor’s gig economy laws
Modelling by the digital platform shows it may have to lift rideshare and food delivery prices by 60 to 85 per cent if it’s forced to pay gig workers penalty rates.
- David Marin-Guzman
Wharfies union withdraws Qube bans after ‘secondary boycott’ claims
The logistics group had accused the wharfies union of targeting it with an illegal secondary boycott under the pretence of protected action against DP World.
- David Marin-Guzman
Nightclub lashed for sacking staff who talked about colleague’s pay
The umpire found a high-end nightclub acted like staff who disclosed pay had broken into “a ‘Watergate complex’, stolen key IP secrets and posted them on WikiLeaks”.
- David Marin-Guzman
CFMEU loses appeal on sacking whistleblowers
The Federal Court has rejected the CFMEU’s bid to overturn a ruling that it unlawfully sacked two officials who blew the whistle on union links to underworld figures.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Downer EDI
Labour hire loopholes ‘shamelessly exploited’ by ADF contractor: union
The sparkies union has called on Defence Minister Richard Marles to help stop Downer from outsourcing ADF jobs, saying it clashes with proposed labour laws.
- David Marin-Guzman
Lawyers, barristers put on notice over sexual harassment
Non-compliance could result in lawyers losing their practicing certificates or the disbarment of barristers, the profession’s watchdogs have warned.
- Hannah Wootton
