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Aged care emerging as crucial election battlefront

It was heartening to finally hear a political leader acknowledge the crisis in aged care.

Newcastle Herald

This teenager says Subway ripped her off, and she's taking her fight to the Fair Work Commission

When international student Carla asked why she hadn't been paid, she was sacked. A parliamentary committee says wage theft in Australia is widespread.

ABC News

Aged care pay rise not in federal budget

The federal government has not yet budgeted for an aged care worker pay rise, ahead of a Fair Work Commission decision on the issue later this year.

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Hospitality industry calls for pay freeze for Australia’s lowest-paid workers

If minimum wage rises it’s ‘only a matter of time’ before cafes charge $7 for a coffee, employers say

The Guardian - AU

Labor's budget reply goes big on aged care, similar on much else

In most years, the opposition leader’s budget reply passes virtually unnoticed.

The Conversation

ACTU pushes for 5pct wage rise for workers

Unions will push for a sharp rise in wages for low paid workers in the current round of the Fair Work Commission's annual wage review.

AAP

Qantas concerned by order to reinstate safety instructor fired for allegedly staring at colleague’s chest

Airline plans to appeal Fair Work Commission ruling that actions did not constitute harassment or ‘any form of ogling’

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‘They all play hard’: what happened when Kimberley Kitching came to Canberra?

After a six-year upper-house career, the Labor senator’s sudden death has prompted an outpouring of grief – and recrimination

The Guardian - AU

Aged care workers earn so little that they have virtually no cash at the end of the week

In an aged care sector expected to need 110,000 extra workers by 2030, wages are so low that people are leaving the sector.

The New Daily

Cost of living pressures leave some aged care workers with no money to spare

New modelling shows an aged care worker with no partner or dependents has $112 a week left after covering the costs of rent, transport, groceries and healthcare.

ABC News

ANU lecturer 'unfairly dismissed' over nude swim with student: commission

The university is appealing a finding that a senior academic was unfairly dismissed for swimming naked and kissing a student during a retreat.

The Canberra Times

NSW's train crisis came down to just four words, documents reveal

Documents obtained by the ABC reveal how just four words detonated an agreement struck between Sydney Trains and union officials to keep NSW's rail system running.

ABC News

NSW transport made plans for two-week rail shutdown as early as last week, documents show

A risk assessment tabled in the Fair Work Commission casts doubt on when transport minister David Elliott first knew of a shutdown

The Guardian - AU

Government was preparing for rail shutdown last week, documents reveal

Senior NSW government bureaucrats were discussing the potential of a two-week shutdown of NSW's passenger train network as early as last week, documents obtained by the ABC reveal.

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NSW government drops case against rail union in Fair Work Commission

Trains to run on enhanced weekend timetable for the rest of the week before full weekday services resume on Monday, the Transport Minister has announced after talks with the union.

The Guardian - AU

Union calls on PM to apologise for strike comments; 34 Covid deaths recorded – as it happened

NSW government drops case against rail workers’ union; Australia closes embassy in Lviv, Ukraine. This blog is now closed

ABC News

How Sydney's train shutdown unfolded over a weekend of court hearings, and what happens next

The union and the NSW government are blaming each other for today's state-wide passenger train shutdown — this is what you need to know about the conflict.

The Guardian - AU

‘They did an Alan Joyce on us’: how the Sydney rail dispute escalated

Sydney’s train network will resume with limited services on Tuesday after a Fair Work Commission hearing was adjourned with no resolution

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The Guardian - AU

Perrottet urged to work with union over NSW train dispute – as it happened

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Minister asked why refugees still stuck in Park hotel if not security risks – as it happened

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AAP

Teen takes Subway to Fair Work Commission

A teenager has taken fast food franchise Subway to the Australia's industrial relations watchdog to end an agreement the union says "rips off" workers.

ABC News

High Court decisions clear way for appeal to Deliveroo driver's alleged unfair dismissal

Two landmark rulings by the High Court, surrounding the definition of employees and contractors, have set the scene for a possible shake-up of work arrangements in the gig economy.

ABC News

Farm worker floor price to begin in late April after Fair Work Commission ruling

Workers picking fruit and vegetables on Australian farms will be guaranteed a minimum rate of pay when changes to the Horticulture Award come into effect on April 28.

ABC News

What you need to know about the fight to raise aged care worker's pay in the Fair Work Commission

The federal government has announced cash payments to try to retain aged care workers, but at the moment the Fair Work Commission is considering a case for substantially increasing wages. This is where it's up to so far.

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