Unions are capitalising on Labor’s new ‘same job, same pay’ laws to try to win $128m in wage rises for 4300 labour hire mineworkers, with officials predicting the dozens of claims will be ‘just the start’.
The Coalition pledge to deregister the CFMEU sparks fresh criticism from building employers which back administration.
Resources sector employers want the business community to campaign to pressure a future Coalition government to deliver radical workplace reform.
Zach Smith claims Tony Burke breached an undertaking to give the union a chance to address allegations of criminality before forcing it into administration.
Large corporate employers make up 70pc of the $473m in backpayments, which now total an extraordinary $1.5bn in three years.
Sydney Trains has failed to overturn Fair Work decision that worker was unfairly sacked after he had tested positive for cocaine.
Political rhetoric on IR policy is heating up – but how credible are each side’s warnings?
A meeting of union officials representing more than 250,000 workers came as industry unions threaten to spend millions of dollars supporting independent candidates against Labor.
Rebel blue-collar unions have defied Labor’s call to unite behind the government and the ACTU to fight the Coalition ahead of the upcoming federal election.
Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt has rejected business calls to wind back unfair dismissal rights.
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