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Public transport
Stalled industrial dispute adds $50 million to Sydney Metro costs
Sydney’s biggest public transport project has been swept up in a long-running dispute between the NSW government and rail unions.
- by Tom Rabe
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Opinion
Minimum wage rise protects low earners from inflation spike
The Herald backs the Fair Work Commission’s decision to raise the minimum wage. As inflation bites, this is an important financial boost for low-income workers.
- The Herald's View
Shell’s Prelude gas ship hit by safety, crewing and industrial problems
Shell is running its $US17 billion Prelude floating LNG plant with critical positions filled with crew who are not fully qualified and more than 200 safety alarms out of action ahead of industrial action due to start on Friday.
- by Peter Milne
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Emergency services
Unions threaten to abandon Daniel Andrews’ faction over firefighter expulsion
Two unions are threatening to walk away from Andrews’ Labor Party faction if the firefighters union and its secretary are kicked out for campaigning against the government.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Construction watchdog to be defunded to bolster federal budget
Labor’s election costings show it plans to rip $28m from the ABCC’s operating budget next year as it moves to scrap the controversial watchdog altogether.
- by Angus Thompson
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NSW budget
Perrottet’s wage offer is a pay cut, so we have to strike
A real and decent pay rise for NSW’s public sector workers is not just ethically sound, it’s economically smart. But the NSW premier has other ideas.
- by Nicole Jess
Unions reject government pay offer, push ahead with strikes
The NSW government will lift its public sector wages cap for the first time since 2011 but the move has been dismissed as insufficient by unions.
- by Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack
‘Why should I stay?’ Front-line workers to lose thousands if wage cap not lifted
Critical workers will be worse off by up to $2500 a year if the public sector wage cap is not lifted, a report shows.
- by Lucy Cormack
NAB boss ‘a wee bit surprised’ by Dutton’s estrangement from big business
Ross McEwan said Peter Dutton’s comment the Liberals had become estranged from big business didn’t square with his recent experience with the Coalition.
- by Clancy Yeates and Angus Thompson
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Amazon reaches settlement with Australian worker over pregnancy
Rachel Reshmi launched Federal Court action against the online retailer in after it withdrew an offer of a permanent role when she said she was pregnant.
- by Angus Thompson
Labor faces a minefield in defining its central IR policy
The new government’s promise to make job security an object of the Fair Work Act faces the complex task of coming up with a definition.
- by Angus Thompson