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All Svitzer industrial action off for six months, orders Fair Work Commission | UPDATED

Maritime union praises Fair Work Commission Svitzer decision as 'commonsense' | UPDATED

Newcastle Herald

Industrial umpire scraps Svitzer lockout

The Fair Work Commission has stepped in to ensure a port lockout by tugboat operator Svitzer cannot go ahead for six months, as a pay dispute continues.

AAP

Unions claim victory as Svitzer lockdown stopped by Fair Work Commission

High drama as Fair Work Commission stops Svitzer tug lockout

Newcastle Herald

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Fair Work Commission orders Svitzer to scrap staff lockout

Danish-owned tugboat company Svitzer has been ordered to abandon its industrial action planned for tomorrow after the Fair Work Commission found it would cause significant economic damage.

ABC News

Federal industrial relations minister Tony Burke blasts NSW government over train dispute

State ministers accused of ‘political games’ after asking Canberra to intervene to stop industrial action

The Guardian - AU

Svitzer docks workers for strike that never happened, promises to make up pay

Union blast Svitzer after tug workers docked for cancelled strike

Newcastle Herald

Tug of woe: strike off but lockout still looming as Svitzer stands ground

Svitzer lockout holds national economy to ransom says ACTU

Newcastle Herald

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‘Economic vandalism’: Labor accuses tugboat operator of ‘blackmail’ over planned lockout of workers

Minister Tony Burke welcomed Fair Work Commission’s decision to take Svitzer case on given the ‘extraordinary impact on the economy’

The Guardian - AU

All parties to Svitzer tug dispute need to think hard after Fair Work Commission's rare intervention

Tug battle and 'supply chain sabotage'Tug battle and 'supply chain sabotage'

Newcastle Herald

Work umpire to consider Svitzer action

The full bench of the Fair Work Commission will examine tugboat operator Svitzer's decision to lock out employees after three years of pay talks.

AAP

Svitzer's threatened national shutdown of 17 ports returns to Fair Work Commission noon Wednesday

Fair Work Commission intervenes in Svitzer tug-of-war

Newcastle Herald

Aged care workers are getting a 15 per cent pay rise – but is it enough?

Aged care workers are set for a 15 per cent wage rise, but who gets it, and will it be enough to keep people in the industry?

ABC News

Fair Work Commission president resigns

Justice Iain Ross has resigned after more than a decade as president of the Fair Work Commission.

AAP

Australia’s aged care workers win 15% pay rise and minister says it’s the ‘first step’

Fair Work Commission accepts that ‘feminised industries’ such as care work have been ‘historically undervalued’

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AAP

Umpire delivers 15pct aged care wage rise

Aged care workers have been awarded an interim 15 per cent pay rise by the Fair Work Commission, but unions say it is only the first step.

ABC News

Aged care workers to get 15 per cent pay rise after Fair Work Commission ruling

Aged care workers will get a pay rise of at least 15 per cent, with the Fair Work Commission ruling it is "plainly justified".

The Guardian - AU

Albanese hits back at business groups’ threats to run anti-industrial relations bill ad campaign

Prime minister says the millions of dollars that would pay for the campaign could be used by companies to ‘pay workers better’

AAP

PM slams campaign against IR bill

The prime minister has defended the multi-employer component of the workplace relations bill and raised questions about the companies gearing up to fight it.

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MEU accuses miner Peabody of trying to rip up EA before industrial relations laws change

The MEU says international company Peabody is attempting to terminate an enterprise agreement to try and avoid new federal industrial relations laws.

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s industrial relations bill: how will it change Australia’s workplaces?

Albanese government says bill will promote wage growth and limit lengthy industrial action, but how will it do so?

ABC News

What the federal government's new workplace laws will mean for you

Labor says its new bill will help bring a long-overdue pay rise to lots of Australian workers, and particularly women. So what does the government actually want to do?

ABC News

Labor's new workplace relations bill proposes new laws around work flexibility, targets gender pay gap

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will introduce Labor's Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill into Parliament, promising to "get wages moving".

The Conversation

The women's budget is headed in the right direction. But the policies still need work

The Labor federal government promised it would make women central to its first budget.

The Conversation

What does the budget mean for Medicare, medicines, aged care and First Nations health?

Labor’s first health budget in almost a decade has few surprises – and that is a good thing.

AAP

Qld coal miners plan action over pay deal

Workers at four BHP-Mitsubishi Alliance coal mines in Queensland have voted to take industrial action over job security provisions in a fresh pay agreement.

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