A Western Australian mining community have protested in Perth outside the Fair Work Commission last week over wage cuts of 43 per cent for maintenance employees. The Collie community protest marked...
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The Fair Work Commission is asking the public for suggestions on what kind of information they would like to be made available on a new online data analysis platform. Data from the Australian...
A mine worker who tested positive to methylamphetamine during a routine mine site drug test has told the Fair Work Commission that she believes her drink was spiked during a hotel drinking binge...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has approved a new enterprise agreement for Thiess workers at the Burton coal mine in Central Queensland, despite noting that, “the new agreement variation...
A mine worker who was caught smoking underground, sleeping underground, and was repeatedly late for shift has (unsurprisingly) lost his unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Commission. Despite...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has said a decision made earlier this year, to limit the use of urine testing for drugs and alcohol in the workplace, was a “significant error”. On...
Striking workers at the QCLNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone, who are not protected by industrial action laws, have been ordered back to work by the Fair Work Commission. The Commission made...
The AMMA is calling for superannuation to be removed from industrial awards as retail and industry superannuation funds continue to battle over which should be the default for award-covered employees...
Comments from a senior member of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) that Australia’s workplace laws are complex and too often require specialist legal advice, show the system must be simplified...
New laws aimed at preventing unions from holding up the development of greenfield mining, oil and gas projects, will be introduced by the Abbot Government within three months. The Abbott Government...
