Industry voices have praised the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2024, which passed through parliament overnight, but said an industry-specific watchdog needed to be established.
The WA branch of the CFMEU has accused critics of embarking on a “witch hunt”, breaking its silence on the corruption scandal embroiling its east coast counterparts.
UPDATE: Statewide contractor Advanced Traffic Management (WA) allegedly owes more than $10 million to unpaid creditors as the court appoints liquidators to wind up the company.
Woodside Petroleum has told the FIFO sexual misconduct inquiry it sacked 12 staff over substantiated sexual harassment incidents during the past five years.
Jay Weatherill has backed higher wages and improved benefits for childcare workers as Australia's early education sector grapples with a tightening labour market.
The state's construction union has voiced its disappointment over the government's failure to include cascading statutory trusts in its Security of Payment Bill.
Investigators have reassembled the roof of a building at Perth's Curtin University that collapsed in October, killing an apprentice construction worker and injuring two others.
A major investigation is under way into the "catastrophic failure" at a building site at Perth's Curtin University that left an apprentice construction worker dead and two others injured.
One day after the federal government's so-called union-busting laws failed to pass the Senate, the CFMEU has sought to turn the focus on construction boss Gerry Hanssen whose company was fined in the Federal Court today.
WA Labor's state executive has backed a motion calling for the expulsion of construction union boss John Setka, albeit by a small margin, and with Premier Mark McGowan using the issue to step up his attack on Maritime Union of Australia boss Christy Cain.
The Australian Building & Construction Commission has commenced legal proceedings against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union and three of its officers, including WA state secretary Michael Buchan.
A BHP Group rail maintenance crew applied brakes to the wrong locomotive when they tried to help the driver of a runaway iron ore train, which ended up being deliberately derailed in the Pilbara region.
The collapse of a ceiling section at Perth's Children's Hospital has been blamed by the construction union on builders John Holland doing a "rush job" on remediation work after asbestos was found in roof panels in July.
SPECIAL REPORT: In order to fully understand where political power lies in Western Australia, it's necessary to recognise the role of low-profile powerbrokers such as Carolyn Smith and Nick Goiran.
Fortescue Metals Group has restructured rosters for mine workers at its operations in the Pilbara, in its latest move to cope with plunging iron ore prices.
The building industry watchdog has launched legal action against CFMEU bosses Joe McDonald and Dave Noonan over an alleged blockade at the New Children's Hospital last year.
