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Bargaining orders for cleaners
The Fair Work Commission has handed down bargaining orders against Assetlink requiring it to negotiate with United Voice (UV) on behalf of the company's Melbourne Airport cleaners. UV alleged Assetlink breached good faith bargaining obligations over a log of claims put to it on June 13. It claimed the company used "delaying tactics". Commissioner D...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalists: Steve Andrew, Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718785. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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TattsBet vague language leaves door open for adverse action claim
In a decision reinforcing the need for employers to be clear and unequivocal in communication when terminating employment, the Fair Work Commission has granted an extension of time for a Tatts Group company TattsBet to bring an adverse action claim. Telephone betting operator Terri Moses lodged her s365 general protections claim against TattsBet on...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718791. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Bechtel sacking of malingering and intemperate rigger deemed unfair
In a curious case, the Fair Work Commission has ruled Bechtel acted harshly in sacking a construction worker who was a malingerer, skipped work to go to the Melbourne Cup, failed a blood and alcohol test, and used abusive language when speaking to managers. Even Senior Deputy President Peter Richards felt compelled to comment on the incongruity of ...
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CFMEU wins adverse action claim against BHP Coal
A Federal Court has found BHP Coal took unlawful adverse action against two senior union representatives when it sacked them for allegedly bullying a worker who had quit the union. Justice Berna Collier found BHP really sacked the union officials because they had taken lawful industrial activity when they sought to persuade the worker to rejoin the...
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12% over 3yrs Vic Parliament staff EA closes ‘Symes' PPL loophole
The Fair Work Commission has approved an enterprise agreement for more than 400 Victorian Parliament electorate officers. The three-year Members of State Parliament Staff Agreement will take effect on August 13, and provides for 3%-a-year wage increases and a $1,000 bonus. Electorate officers should receive the bonus and a 3% increase backdated to ...
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Abbott refuses to rule out PPL delay
Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has refused to say whether he will defer the Coalition's paid parental leave (PPL) policy until the later part of his first term if elected. Asked repeatedly on Sunday whether a Coalition Government would implement the PPL “immediately or is it something that could be deferred”, Abbott replied only ...
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Wage obfuscation no barrier to PABO
The Fair Work Commission has indicated that even if a bargaining party does not reveal its position on wages that does not mean it was not genuinely trying to reach agreement. Golden Circle had objected to the National Union of Workers' (NUW) protected action ballot order (PABO) application on the grounds the union was either “obfuscating on ...
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FWC and lawyers failed to spot invalid unlawful termination claim
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has narrowly rejected an employee's bid to make a general protections claim involving dismissal months after he realised he had lodged an unlawful termination claim in error. In his decision considering “exceptional circumstances”, Deputy President Val Gostencnik dealt in part with s 723 , which bars an ap...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718792. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Govt announces super and minimum wage FWC panels
Economist and former Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) advocate Tim Harcourt and ex-Treasury secretary Tony Cole have garnered spots as expert panel members on the next annual minimum wage review. Labour economist Professor Sue Richardson - a part-time member in the last minimum wage review - will resume her role on the panel. Workplace rel...
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AMMA-commissioned report puts squeeze on MUA to lower sights
Increased labour costs in the offshore oil and gas industry have "significantly impacted" the industry's international competiveness, an Australian Mines & Metals Association (AMMA) commissioned report says. AMMA released the Deloitte Access Economics report, Analysis of the offshore oil and gas marine support sector, to coincide with the curre...
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Qld Govt fails in bid for direct ballot
The Qld Industrial Relations Commission has refused an application from the Public Service Commission (PSC) to conduct a direct ballot of public servants as a way of trying to break the stalemate over a new enterprise agreement. The PSC had sought to put questions to its 50,000 public servants on wage increases and conditions relating to its “...
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Full bench to hear NTEU v Monash one-hour exam results ban appeal
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has appealed a decision handing down a "nominal" one-hour suspension of an exams results ban at Monash University. In his decision Vice President Michael Lawler conceded his order suspending the NTEU exam results ban for one hour from midnight on July 27 would inevitably be appealed (WF18785) . The NTEU'...
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MUA rally at PWCS Newcastle
The Maritime Union of Australia's (MUA) stoush with Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) shows no sign of abating with the union calling a mass rally tomorrow (August 8) outside the front gate of the company's Newcastle terminal. The union has been at loggerhead with PWCS for several months over negotiations for a new enterprise agreement ( WF18664 ) ...
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Kearney decries Coalition's ‘Mr Squiggle drawing' IR policy
The "phoney war" is over, ACTU president Ged Kearney declared in a speech at the National Press Club today before unleashing the union movement's opening salvo in the real war - the September 7 federal election. Kearney spared little in taking Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to task for what she claimed was a lack of details in the Coalition's workpl...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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