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‘Everybody eats’: secret recording exposes CFMEU kickback plan
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“Amazon asked me and the film community to trust them and their public statements about supporting cinemas, and then they turned around and are using Road House to sell plumbing fixtures.” deadline.com/2024/01/road-ho…
Unions use multi-employer bargaining laws to seek to lift NDIS workers’ pay. Providers opposing the move, saying the NDIS funding won’t allow them to pay more than the award minimum. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
Despite Tony Burke's assurances that the mining industry would not be affected, miners are now facing a union push for multi-employer bargaining across five mines in NSW. Union says it want to standardise conditions across industry, miners fear shut down. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
Working from home on mandatory office days doesn’t justify the sack, Fair Work rules. Sales representative awarded more than $26,000 in compensation after he was sacked for “lack of commitment” over WFH. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
"Once, [home ownership] was seen as a goal attainable by all. Now that it has become unaffordable to almost everyone without inherited wealth, the connection between work and home ownership has snapped." smh.com.au/national/with-hom…
Antoinette Lattouf’s ABC sacking lobbied by pro-Israel lobbyists smh.com.au/business/workplac…
Best films of 2023
1.Babylon
2.Reptile
3.Killers of the Flower Moon
4.May December
5.Maestro
6.Talk to Me
7.Anatomy of a Fall
8.The Creator
9.Barbie
10.The Royal Hotel
Hon Mention: Leave the World Behind
Best tv series of 2023
1.Scavengers Reign
2.The Idol
3.The Diplomat
4.Succession s4
5.The Enfield Poltergeist
6.The Gold
7.A Murder at the End of the World
8.Platonic
9.The Marvellous Mrs Maisel s5
10.Yellowstone s5 Part 1
Hon mention: Foundation s2
Average pay rises in collective agreements have risen to 4.1 per cent a year, driven by large public sector increases, and appear set to keep climbing, according to new data. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
A subsidiary of the country’s largest listed labour-hire company has been forced to pay workers penalty rates and overtime for the first time in 20 years. Fair Work Commission said firm used 'below award' rates as its business model. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
A CFMEU organiser and former street gang member has been charged with allegedly attacking a woman with a large machete in a home invasion more than a decade ago. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
Union to challenge chocolatier Koko Black’s agreement which it says erodes staff’s weekend penalty rates every year by turning them into flat $ amounts. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
“I can stop anyone doing anything, mate”: Gatto’s warning to Melbourne developer. afr.com/politics/federal/we-…
A senior Macquarie staffer allegedly “clapped” the bottom of a female co-worker at a social gathering held by the financial services giant earlier this year, with his colleague claiming he repeatedly touched her inappropriately during the event. afr.com/companies/financial-…
Senior union official recorded boasting that workplace minister Tony Burke has told the union he won’t intervene to stop port strikes, now closing on three months. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
E-tailer New Aim has warned that the rise of frivolous work-from-home disputes is draining businesses’ time and money. Comes after firm was forced to defend costly legal action by a new hire who wanted to work from New Zealand remotely full-time. afr.com/work-and-careers/wor…
Meet the ex-Deloitte partner overhauling the IR system afr.com/politics/federal/mee…
