Just a few days after Labor's bargaining laws passed in December, ANZ bank started talks with union to restart collective bargaining for the first time in seven years.
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ANZ has restarted collective bargaining over pay for the first time in seven years, joining a wave of major employers reviving dormant union agreements in the wake of Labor’s industrial relations overhaul.
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Brisbane council to review Mantle Group CBD leases after penalty rates controversy
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Unions are using a new power introduced by Labor to unilaterally initiate collective bargaining after years of expired "dead" agreements
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Teachers, university staff, rail workers and civil servants stop work to demand better pay in widespread strike actions across UK.
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In pitch decks, Bates claims to be co-founder of Skin Laundry, a LA-based facials company, and he “exited” in 2015. But AFR confirmed with the Skin Laundry founder that Bates worked as a graphic design contractor for Skin Laundry and was not a co-founder.
IMF says collective agreements' lengthy terms helped contained wage pressures in Aus, with pay rises < predictions based on jobless rate. Oz wage growth among lowest of advanced economies (< median 4%). But wages set to play increasing role in inflation.
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#breaking Fair Work has referred the HR chief of hospitality giant Mantle to the AFP for allegedly lying over EBA that deprived workers of penalty rates. Mantle denies claims, says "extraordinary union & others attacking a worker for simply doing his job”
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Billionaire Anthony Pratt donates $1.5m to ALP. CFMEU and ETU make $1m in donations to Labor's election campaign.
Woodside has lost an intense seven-month legal battle to stop unions bargaining collectively at its offshore gas platforms - a first in 30 years. Unions accuse Woodside of engaging in "corporate lawfare" to protect its model of individual contracts.
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Activist turned MP's chief of staff Sally Rugg is suing teal independent Monique Ryan for allegedly trying to sack her six months into the job because she refused to work "unreasonable" hours.
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Woolworths, backed by Coles and the SDA, is seeking sector-wide changes that would ensure staff at new online fulfilment centres are paid like supermarket workers. Warehouse unions flag opposition.
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Almost 9000 Crown casino workers have received a 5 per cent pay rise under their new private equity owner Blackstone, driving an end-of-year upsurge in wages for collective agreements.
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'Sally Rugg... has taken the Commonwealth and the Member for Kooyong to court for an alleged breach of general protections under the Fair Work Act.'
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Qube accuses MUA of launching $15m underpayment claim as “industrial leveraging tactic” in face of company’s insistence on recovering damages awarded to it over unlawful strikes.
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Docs reveal FWC was concerned Mantle's deal paid < minimum due to lack of penalty rates. Deal approved after Mantle said it would only cover a cafe that didn't open nights, weekends or public holidays. It now covers a slew of bars, pubs and restaurants.
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Hospitality giant Mantle sacks hundreds of casuals, then rehires them under deal that doesn’t pay weekend penalty rates. Job offers include default position of swapping public holiday rates for other days. Part 3 of 22-year battle against penalty rates.
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Tech and gaming workers have won sector-wide overtime rights and some penalty rates for the first time, if they are earn less than $102,000 a year. Employers will also have to record their hours worked.
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BHP reconsidering strict vaccination mandate due to less severe omicron variant, better treatments. Move to scale back mandate comes at time of high skill shortages in the sector.
Babylon an absolute stunner, some of the most extraordinary set pieces I’ve ever seen. Masterpiece level.
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The 50-year-old man made the threat after a fellow mine worker began taunting him and provoked a confrontation, but the workplace tribunal ruled his sacking was harsh.
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FWO is also alleging Super Retail knew it was underpaying overtime by at least April 2017 but did not act to address it until 2018. The allegation opens company up to fines of up to $630,000 per breach, 10-times the penalties which would ordinarily apply.
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End of an era as , the longest standing Chook in almost 50 years of the Chanticleer column, takes his leave. He's been a brilliant newsbreaking columnist, a great colleague to all at the and a wonderful mentor and friend to me. 1/2
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Retail and Fast Food Workers Union urgently seeks to axe Apple's old store agreement mid-bargaining and revert almost 4000 staff to the award to restore set rosters and weekends.
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Great piece by on the Federal Court's new restrictions on public documents. "This opens the door for well-funded defendants to keep serious corporate offending out of the public eye for years."
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The CFMEU has been fined $180,000 for an unlawful picket involving its incoming national leader that protested alleged underpayments at a Canberra building site and locked out workers.
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Union membership in the nurses union has jumped 14 per cent during the pandemic, or by 40,000 members, to cover 323,000 employees.
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Pay rises in private sector agreements stuck at less than 3% a year as employee coverage falls below 11%. But Treasurer Jim Chalmers says pay rises in economy overall rose fastest in almost a decade, with increases for low-skilled surpassing high-skilled.
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New ABS data shows union membership for private sector employees in their main job has shrunk to a new low of 8.2 per cent. Experts and union leaders say time to address the ‘free rider’ problem.
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Fair Work has found the HR chief for hospitality giant Mantle Group deliberately lied to it over a sham EBA that deprived hundreds of workers of penalty rates. It is now considering referring him to police.
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Best Films of 2022
The Fabelmans
Nightmare Alley
Three Thousand Years of Longing
House of Gucci
Triangle of Sadness
Barbarian
Bones and All
The Northman
Compartment No 6
Stars At Noon
H/M: Banshees of Inisherin; Avatar 2; Black Phone; Elvis
Best older films seen first in 2022
Canyon Passage (1946)
His Kind of Woman! (1951)
Bitter Rice (1949)
Stars In My Crown (1950)
Shock Troops (1967)
Hud (1963)
Night & the City (1992)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Orphan (2009)
The 11th Green (2020)
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Best book discoveries of 2022
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Best tv series of 2022
1. The White Lotus s2
2. The English
3. The Staircase
4. Dahmer
5. Black Bird
6. Better Call Saul s6
7. Chloe
8. Industry s2
9. Irma Vep
10. 1883
Hon Mentions: Raised By Wolves s2; Euphoria s2; Station Eleven; The Rehearsal; Mayor of Kingstown
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An incredible and moving story from the historic blizzard in New York
Health, wealth and care giant Australian Unity has had to pay a $250,000 “contrition payment” for underpaying thousands of staff more than $7.3 million.
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