Umpire to announce future of weekend penalty rates

A highly anticipated ruling on whether to slash weekend penalty rates for Australians working in retail, fast food and hospitality jobs will be handed down on Thursday.

Childcare provider embroiled in new wage theft case

A childcare provider, whose owner has previously been rebuked as a remorseless offender of wage violations, is embroiled in fresh claims of exploiting staff.

Cleaning contractor at 18 Victorian public schools in wages scandal

• EXCLUSIVE

A cleaning contractor faces an investigation into claims of "massive wage theft" spanning a large network of Victoria's government-run schools.

CFA member stood aside over change room creep camera

• UPDATED

Victoria's Country Fire Authority has stood down a senior member of a large Victorian brigade amid allegations he has been filming women getting changed in a shed without their knowledge.

'Industry will stop': Wave of protests to hit construction sites

Building sites across Australia are headed for strife, with union members preparing a wave of mass walkouts over the Turnbull government's hardline new reforms.

Heavy Toll: Transport giant axes 200 staff in job cut drive

Australian workers at transport giant Toll are expected to bear the brunt of a major job-cutting drive.

'I can have 20,000 workers here tomorrow': Union fined for blockade

Australia's largest construction union has been ordered to pay almost $100,000 for blockading a major Port of Melbourne expansion project, and threatening to bring "20,000 members" to join the fight.

Clock ticking for builders to avoid 'black list'

Thousands of contractors risk being immediately barred from all new Commonwealth-funded construction work if the Turnbull government brings forward the deadline for compliance with its national building code.

Parmalat's dairy factory pay battle heads to tribunal

A pay battle that has forced the indefinite shutdown of a Parmalat dairy processing plant is "a long way" from over, the company says