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...
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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...
One of Australia’s biggest unions claims it will now mount legal challenges against mining contractors who force workers to submit to drug and alcohol urine testing, after a landmark decision handed...
Urine tests for drugs and alcohol may soon be deemed illegal on mine sites after the Fair Work Commission labelled the use of such tests as “unjust and unreasonable” in a recent hearing...
Key changes to workplace laws were announced by federal Employment Minister Eric Abetz on Friday, including union entry rights to worksites and the negotiation of wages and conditions for new...
