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There are calls for limits on FIFO workers amid concerns that one of the NT's few surviving mining towns is losing the last of its residential workers.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, unions, federal---state-issues, human-interest, community-and-society, industrial-relations, nt
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| UpdatedA global report finds billions of dollars are wasted on infrastructure projects because of bad planning, bureaucracy and the failure to retain good staff.
Topics: building-and-construction, economic-trends, industrial-relations, management, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedA new psychometric testing regime for South Australia's child protection workers is in limbo, with the public sector union lodging a dispute in the Industrial Relations Commission.
Topics: child-abuse, industrial-relations, community-and-society, sa, australia
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A group of Queensland and New South Wales dairy farmers fear they could lose up to $3 million if a major milk processor drops the price it pays to farmers.
Topics: livestock, dairy-production, rural, business-economics-and-finance, industrial-relations, agribusiness, agricultural-prices, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, lismore-2480, toowoomba-4350, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedA planned 24-hour strike at Victoria's Loy Yang A power station over the Christmas and New Year period has been called off by the union.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, industrial-relations, work, morwell-3840, sale-3850, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Two construction workers from inside the Wheatstone Project told the ABC they believe they should be able to leave the site on New Year's Eve
Topics: building-and-construction, industrial-relations, unions, oil-and-gas, onslow-6710
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| UpdatedWheatstone construction workers say it is unfair they cannot leave their FIFO site for New Year's Eve.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industrial-relations, unions, building-and-construction, onslow-6710
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WA Court security and custodial officers will lose as much as $15 in pay each hour according to their union, under a new contract that the State Government say will save $36 million.
Topics: courts-and-trials, industrial-relations, broome-6725
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| UpdatedThe union representing security guards says it has seen an increase in its members being treated poorly by employers over the past 18 months, as fierce competition to win contracts puts pressure on wages.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, industrial-relations, regulation, small-business, australia
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Topics: work, industrial-relations, wollongong-2500
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The Fair Work Commission issues an order preventing more than 600 Esso workers from striking indefinitely from Friday.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industrial-relations, work, longford-3851
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| UpdatedPicketing Carlton and United Breweries workers are invited to return to their jobs at the Abbotsford plant Melbourne, unions say, adding that a pay deal has been struck.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, unions, industrial-relations, work, abbotsford-3067
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The ACT Chief Magistrate lashes out over Industrial Court prosecutions saying they are plagued with a lack of diligence, as she considers whether to dismiss a case about a man who fell from the door of a plane he was cleaning.
Topics: industrial-relations, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The Federal Government raises concerns a proposed strike by more than 600 Esso workers could impact gas supply across four states.
Topics: unions, oil-and-gas, work, industrial-relations, longford-3851
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| UpdatedAn Easter Sunday public holiday, paid domestic violence leave and the reinstatement of collective bargaining for the public sector are key elements of a new industrial relations bill that passed in State Parliament early this morning.
Topics: industrial-relations, unions, state-parliament, public-sector, brisbane-4000
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Unions are gearing up to fight a Fair Work Commission decision they claim gives employers a green light to sack striking workers.
Topics: unions, industrial-relations, mining-rural, qld, australia
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They say politics is the art of compromise, and it took a whole lot of that to get the ABCC bill passed. Here are some of the amendments made, and deals done, to get the crossbenchers' support.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, building-and-construction, business-economics-and-finance, industrial-relations, australia
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| UpdatedEight Essential Energy employees will lose their jobs in Broken Hill in redundancies announced this week.
Topics: industrial-relations, electricity-energy-and-utilities, broken-hill-2880
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Lufthansa pilots are set to strike again this week after fresh talks failed to settle their long-running pay dispute, a German pilots' union says.
Topics: air-transport, business-economics-and-finance, unions, industrial-relations, germany
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Jim Metcher is "voluntarily" standing aside from his job as state secretary of the CEPU NSW after media reported this week six charges had been laid against him in 2007 for allegedly assaulting his family.
Topics: unions, domestic-violence, industrial-relations
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Electricity distributor Essential Energy now has the power to forcibly cut 600 jobs from regional NSW communities after a key ruling by the Fair Work Commission, a union says.
Topics: industrial-relations, electricity-energy-and-utilities, wagga-wagga-2650, broken-hill-2880, port-macquarie-2444, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, bourke-2840, lismore-2480, newcastle-2300, griffith-2680, wollongong-2500, bega-2550, orange-2800
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government agrees to sweeping new federal whistleblower laws, to apply to the public and corporate sectors, to secure the passage of a key piece of industrial relations legislation.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, parliament, federal-parliament, industrial-relations, unions, australia
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Employment Minister Michaelia Cash is in the midst of a round of last-minute negotiations to try to pass two highly symbolic industrial relations bills before the end of the year.
Topics: government-and-politics, laws, industrial-relations, parliament, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedVictoria's firefighters' union has tried to delay a vote on the controversial Country Fire Authority workplace agreement because of fears the industrial umpire will reject the deal.
Topics: unions, fires, state-parliament, emergency-planning, industrial-relations, vic, parliament-house-3002
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| UpdatedThe two bills which sent the nation to a double dissolution election are listed for debate in the Senate next week, where the Coalition will need eight of the 10 crossbench senators to support them.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, industrial-relations