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A Woodside spokesman said the company respected the rights of contractor employees to engage in industrial action.

Oil & GasPremiumIchthys, Pluto, North West Shelf LNG facing strike fights

UGL maintenance workers at Woodside Energy’s Pluto and North West Shelf gas export plants are set to strike from Wednesday, adding uncertainty to markets already rocked by the Middle East war. 

Matt Mckenzie

WA’s LNG sector is facing the prospect of industrial action at major export operations, adding another supply risk for Asian buyers already scrambling for cargoes after disruptions in the Middle East. Pictured: Woodside’s Karratha Gas Plant.

EnergyCommentsPremiumUnion unrest threatens to rock Woodside, Ichthys LNG hubs

WA’s LNG sector is facing the prospect of industrial action at major export operations, adding another supply risk for Asian buyers already scrambling for cargoes after disruptions in the Middle East.

Keira Wright

For many fathers, doing more unpaid household work has been directly correlated with less time spent on the job.

Workplace MattersCommentsPremiumDads are spending less time at work, more on childcare

For the first time in a generation, college-educated fathers are spending substantially more time on their homes and kids than they did just a few years ago, often cutting working hours to do it.

Simone Foxman

Business groups have warned the Federal Budget risks adding another layer of pressure to firms already bracing for higher wage costs, after the peak union body lifted its pay claim for millions of award workers.

BusinessCommentsPremiumBudget and wage woes weigh heavy on businesses

Business groups have warned the Federal Budget risks adding another layer of pressure to firms already bracing for higher wage costs.

Ryan Johnson

A lack of high-quality feedback could also lead to attrition.

Workplace MattersCommentsPremium‘Be honest?’: Why workers don’t tell their bosses the truth

Leaders say that they want to hear the honest truth about what’s happening but almost half of executives surveyed said that a lack of honest feedback is their primary concern.

Sophie Caldwell

First impressions have a poor reputation, but in a world that moves rapidly and demands constant decision-making, the idea that people should suspend judgment entirely is unrealistic and counterproductive.

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opinion
WORKPLACE MATTERSVideoCommentsPremium
opinion
First impressions deserve a second chance in the workplace

First impressions have a poor reputation, but in a world that moves rapidly and demands constant decision-making, the idea that people should suspend judgment entirely is unrealistic and counterproductive.

Gary Martin

Night shift work is reshaping how essential work is priced in the 24/7 economy.

RemunerationCommentsPremiumUnlikely jobs that pay biggest premium for night shift work

Are you a night owl? Why not turn your love of the dark into a lucrative career, where some jobs done after hours pay staggering premiums to those done between the usual nine-to-five.

Daniel Newell

The ACTU is pushing for an extra week of annual leave to be added to the Australian workforce.

Workplace MattersPremiumBusiness leaders slam union push for four-day work week

Business groups have baulked at the Australian Council of Trade Union’s fresh push for radical changes to working conditions, describing them as tone deaf wishful thinking.

Rebecca Le May

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian.

BusinessCommentsPremiumInside Atlassian’s ‘kick-ass’ quarter

Atlassian’s stock price has soared after the Australian software giant smashed analyst expectations in its third quarter results, defying fears AI would erode demand for its workplace software.

Ryan Johnson

Unions have renewed calls for a four-day work week. NewsWire / Nikki Short

BusinessPremium‘Work to live’: Unions push for a four-day work week

Unions have launched a radical push for a four-day work week without pay cuts, calling it the biggest employment shake-up since the 1970s.

Cameron Micallef

WorkSafe commissioner Sally North.

MiningCommentsPremiumGold miner cops $575,000 fine after apprentice paralysed

Gold producer Wiluna Mining has been fined $575,000 after an apprentice mechanical fitter suffered a permanent spinal injury and became a paraplegic when a wheel assembly weighing more than 750kg fell on him.

Neil Watkinson

Most workers won’t ask for a pay rise despite wanting one, Seek research suggests.

BusinessPremiumWA workers expect a pay rise but here’s why most won’t ask

West Australian workers are crossing their fingers for a pay rise this year after 2025 left many with only a modest increase. Yet many won’t ask for one.

Ryan Johnson

Roger Cook press conference at Pan Pacific Hotel on Tuesday morning

MiningCommentsPremiumPremier urges industrial peace in the Pilbara

Premier Roger Cook has told WA’s resources giants that industrial harmony will not ‘come free of charge’ as he urges a resolution to union pay fights in the Pilbara.

Matt Mckenzie

Inpex is Japan-based but its Aussie headquarters are in Perth.

Oil & GasPremiumDeadline set for talks as Inpex strike looms

Unions have set a mid-May deadline for negotiations with gas giant Inpex after hundreds of workers on the Ichthys export operation voted to strike.

Matt Mckenzie

More Bankwest jobs are going as CBA pushes towards automation.

BankingPremiumMore jobs axed as Bankwest rout continues

More jobs have been chopped from Bankwest as parent company Commonwealth Bank makes even more change to the Perth-based brand.

Adrian Rauso

A BHP iron ore train in the Pilbara.

MiningPremiumBHP warns ‘ship has sailed’ on industrial relations

BHP’s WA iron ore boss has warned “the ship has sailed” on industrial relations as the company battles the re-emergence of unions at its Pilbara mine sites, suggesting it was too late to fix the issue.

Adrian Lowe and Simone Grogan

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar.

Workplace MattersCommentsPremium‘Economically reckless’: Employers blast union pay push

Employers have blasted a union campaign for a minimum wage increase by more than 5 per cent, calling it “economically reckless” and warning it would fuel inflation and pressure already stretched employers.

Ryan Johnson

Bankwest graduate program manager Jess Muntz and Bankwest chief investment officer Peter Harvey pictured with graduates at Bankwest’s office in Raine Square, Perth, on Thursday. Carwyn Monck

BankingCommentsPremiumBankwest’s new grads lock in for banking’s AI frenzy

A new troop of technology grads are filing into Bankwest guided by a mantra to not be afraid of artificial intelligence taking their jobs, but rather the peer who wields the tool better than they can.

Simone Grogan

Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA chief executive Aaron Morey.

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumLobby lashes union for strike threats against Inpex

The State’s resources lobby has piled on the Offshore Alliance for threatening strikes and stoppages at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG operations, telling workers their pay packets are already big enough.

Simone Grogan

Simon Mukwarami is remembered as a loving husband and father.

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
MiningPremium
The West Australian exclusive
WorkSafe accuses South32 of negligence in worker’s death

A much-loved father died at a Western Australian alumina refinery because there were ‘no controls’ in place ‘to prevent a fall’, a leaked document from the State’s safety regulator has revealed.

Adrian Rauso

New gender equality standards across Australia will affect almost 2000 large-sized workplaces. (Julian Smith/AAP PHOTOS)

employerCommentsPremiumMajor employers face new rules on gender equality

Companies with 500 or more employees have new requirements to set, report on and meet gender equality targets in an effort to make workplaces more equitable.

Maeve Bannister

ndrew McKellar, Chief Executive Officer at Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

EconomyCommentsPremiumWar causing too much pressure for pay rises, lobby argues

Australia’s largest businesses have told the Federal Government to tread carefully on wage increases, claiming members can’t stomach further hits to margins under pressure from inflation and now fuel prices. 

Simone Grogan

Working from home is now baked into most workplace policies. So how do businesses get their workers to want to go into the office, and ultimately retain staff?

Workplace MattersCommentsPremiumHow to get employees excited to work in the office

Working from home is now baked into most workplace policies. So how do businesses get their workers to want to go into the office, and ultimately retain staff?

Kimberley Braddish

The Worsley Alumina operation.

MiningCommentsPremiumFatal WA mine site won safety awards months before tragedy

South32’s Worsley Alumina operation won two safety awards, including one for an ‘overhead protection system that eliminates falling object risks’, just months before a boilermaker fell to his death.

Adrian Rauso