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Kearney decries Coalition's 'Mr Squiggle drawing' IR policy

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WFD: The "phoney war" is over, ACTU president Ged Kearney declared in a speech at the National Press Club on Wednesday (August 7) 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...

Abbott refuses to rule out PPL delay

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WFD: 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 that it...

FWC queries CFMEU EAs' labour hire clause

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Fair Work Commission Senior Deputy President Peter Richards has commented labour hire caveats in a batch of templated Construction Mining Energy Forestry Union enterprise agreements are unlawful as they did not pertain to the employment relationship. The CFMEU EAs contained a sub clause that put restrictions on the employers' use of labour hire. SD...

High Court to decide if sex is outside employment relationship

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The High Court has reserved judgment after hearing Comcare's appeal against a Federal Full Court decision that found it was liable to compensate an unidentified Commonwealth employee for injuries stemming from a sexual encounter. The employee was at a motel room at the time that was arranged by her employer. The decision is expected to have consequ...

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Product code: 314021718801. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Employer bid for one EA fails to get up under ‘fairly chosen' & GFB

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An employer's attempts to amalgamate its raft of enterprise agreements (EAs) has hit a hurdle after the Fair Work Commission upheld two scope orders requiring it to bargain separately for two different groups of employees. The case examined - and rejected - novel employer claims around the nature of good faith bargaining and a three-pronged test fo...

Get serious: judge rejects AA claims from retrenched Virgin parents

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The Federal Circuit Court has substantially rejected the adverse action claims of two Virgin media specialists who alleged the airline had breached their general protections by retrenching them while they were pregnant or on maternity leave. Judge Michael Burnett found the redundancies were for operational reasons and criticised the employees for e...

NUW scope application sent packing

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has rejected an application by the National Union of Workers (NUW) for a scope order to bargain for a separate agreement for Interlloy Pty Ltd warehouse workers. Steel supplier Interlloy's 133 full-time employees - including officer workers, managers, sales staff and warehouse employees - are covered by a collective a...

Refugee workers win penalty rates after WorkChoices EA axed

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Abattoir employees of labour hire firm AWX Pty Ltd, most of who are refugees on humanitarian visas, will receive penalty rates after the Fair Work Commission terminated their collective agreement and shifted them to the meat industry modern award. The abattoir workers were employed under an AWX 2006-09 collective agreement, which continued to opera...

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Product code: 314021718802. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Secret recordings not admissible despite broad discretion

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The Fair Work Commission has refused to allow an employee to use unlawful recordings of meetings with her managers in an unfair dismissal hearing. Integrity New Homes ex-employee Carol Haslam sought permission to use the recordings on the grounds it would clarify allegedly false witness statements. However, Commissioner Nicholas Wilson noted the re...

Holden vote results imminent

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The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union will this afternoon announce the results of Holden SA workers' vote on proposed workplace changes that could determine the carmaker's future. About 1,600 Holden workers were voting on the proposed variation in Adelaide at presstime, with 1,000 Victorian workers to vote from tomorrow until Friday. However, ...

Public servant faces sack after political Tweets exposed

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An immigration public servant who faces the sack for criticising the Government's refugee policies via an anonymous Twitter account has failed in her bid to argue her conduct was protected under a right of political expression. Federal Circuit Court Judge Warwick Neville found that there was no “unfettered” implied constitutional right ...

NTEU fears full bench decision will limit industrial action options

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The National Tertiary Education Union has been forced to stop all protected industrial action at Monash University for two weeks following a full bench order suspending its ban on transmitting student results. The full bench's reasons, which are yet to be handed down, are expected to deal with how significant an industrial action's threat to the po...

FWC blasts TAFE NSW for ‘artificial' use of State Govt policy

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The Fair Work Commission has found TAFE NSW unfairly dismissed an employee it made redundant because its redeployment effort was “artificially or unreasonably constrained” by its use of the NSW Government's Managing Excess Employees policy. The Technical and Further Education Commission trading as TAFE NSW made a thirty-year veteran Lin...

Holden SA workers vote up freeze

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A “clear majority” of Holden Adelaide workers have voted yes to a wage freeze and changes to overtime and shift conditions, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union announced yesterday afternoon (WF18802) . The vote, which also waived a scheduled 4% wage increase this November, should boost the case for Holden to maintain its Australi...

CFMEU wins High Court strike pay appeal

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The High Court has ruled the Fair Work Act's prohibition of “strike pay” only refers to money and not any economic benefit transferred from employer to employee. The unanimous ruling opens the path for the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union to pursue its claim that Mammoet Australia Pty Ltd took adverse action against its fly...

FWO finds ugly record in beauty industry

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The hair and beauty industry has an ugly record on workplace entitlements, with 55% of employers in the industry failing to meet their obligations according to a new Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) report. The FWO report shows the results of a 2012 audit into the hair and beauty industry, which found of the 858 assessments completed, 474 employers contra...

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Paul Karp. Product code: 314021718803. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Product code: 314021718804. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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