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Workers approve FIFO at Groote Eylandt mine

Employees at Groote Eylandt Mining Corporation have approved a new enterprise agreement that allows the company to take on fly-in, fly-out workers.


Latham promises 10 hours a week of free child care

Working parents would receive 10 hours a week of free care for each child aged three to four, childcare trainees would receive bonuses for completing their training and a plan would be developed to boost wages for childcare workers, under a Latham Labor Government.

Labor says Coalition "Orwellian" on IR

The Opposition has accused the Coalition of planning to seize the States' IR systems and get more workers onto AWAs, following Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' IR policy launch this morning.

Coalition would tighten right of entry; expand non-union bargaining

A re-elected Coalition Government would tighten union right of entry laws; establish a mediation service for small business as an informal alternative to the AIRC; and boost non-union agreement-making; the Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, announced today.

NUW updates commercial traveller coverage

The National Union of Workers has won AIRC approval to amend its rules to maintain its coverage of commercial travellers now that they do much of their work via the phone and the internet.

Storeworker needed to be able to lift heavy items

A storeworker with a back injury has lost his unlawful dismissal case after the Federal Court ruled the injury meant he was no longer able to meet the inherent requirements of the position.


Joint employment only a matter of time; and could secure entitlements

It is only a matter of time before a court of record accepts the concept of joint employment in a labour hire situation, while the fledgling concept could in future be used more widely to secure employee entitlements during strategic insolvencies, the conference heard today.

Travel and childcare should be tax deductible

Work has changed in such significant and relevant ways that it is now strongly arguable that childcare and travel to and from work should be tax deductible, a Sydney conference has heard.