WFD: 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 te...
Employer bid for one EA fails to get up under 'fairly chosen' & GFB
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AIPA not allowed to represent charter pilots
WFD: Qantas's legal and financial oversight of regional charter service provider Network Aviation (NA) did not amount to day-to-day operational management and control of the service, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled. It therefore upheld Vice President Graeme Watson's finding that the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA)...
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Wage rise lowest since 1999
WFD: Wages growth continues at a weak pace, growing at a 3% trend basis for the year to the June quarter 2013. The latest wage price index showed the construction and wholesale trade industries recorded the largest quarterly rise of 1%. The quarterly trend increase across all sectors was 0.7%. However, on original figures, the all-sector quarterly ...
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ACT Industrial Court a step closer
The ACT Government last week (August 8) introduced legislation to establish an Industrial Court (IC) that will decide industrial and work health and safety (WHS) matters. Attorney-General Simon Corbell formally introduced the Magistrates Court (Industrial Proceedings) Amendment Bill 2013 . Under the reforms, the industrial magistrate would handle a...
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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: 314021718805. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Diary
Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) national convention: August 19-21. Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Details here . Foenander Lecture 2013: September 11, 6.30pm, Basement Theatre, The Spot ,198 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Melbourne. Hosted by the University of Melbourne's Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law. The 2013 L...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editors: Peter Schwab/Helen Jones. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Coalition reveals its PPL scheme would start July 2015 if elected
The Coalition has announced the details of its paid parental leave (PPL) scheme, although it would not be available to mothers until July 1, 2015. Speaking in Melbourne on Sunday (August 18), Opposition leader Tony Abbott said, if the Coalition was elected on September 7, mothers would get six months' pay plus superannuation contributions at their ...
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Holden three-year wage freeze deal ready for FWC approval
Holden has confirmed it will submit an enterprise agreement variation application to the Fair Work Commission, paving the way for a three-year wage freeze for more than 1,600 workers at its Elizabeth plant in South Australia. About 500 Holden workers in Victoria voted yes for the variation in a secret ballot late last week, although the variation H...
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Fed Court throws out adverse action claims about wearing union T-shirt
The Federal Court has found the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board (MFB) did not take adverse action against its HR director's executive assistant for wearing a union T-shirt during a period of protected industrial action. Despite the union listing T-shirts as a ban on its protection action ballot, Justice Iain Ross found such activity ...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editors: Peter Schwab/Helen Jones. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Coalition flags FWO immunity for small biz worker underpayments
The federal Coalition's small business policy has flagged potential immunity for employers who unintentionally breach workplace laws by paying workers incorrectly. The 23-point policy released yesterday includes - under the title 'providing help to small business workplaces' - what appears to be a directive to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) not to p...
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MUA hails new international law protecting seafarers' conditions
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says the international Maritime Labour Convention ( MLC ) 2006 which comes into force today is a "significant leap forward in the global trade union campaign to improve the labour rights and labour standards of seafarers”. More than 40 countries, including Australia, have signed up for the MLC which sets ...
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No case for ‘catch-up' increases for labour's ‘lost share': Parham
The mining sector was entirely responsible for labour's falling share of income in the 2000s and there is no case for “catch-up” wage rises, a productivity economist has argued ahead of new research into the subject. Speaking at the Fair Work Commission's IR lecture series on Friday (August 16), Dean Parham expanded on his soon-to-be-pu...
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CFMEU hit hard over coercion campaign
The Federal Court has ordered the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Communication Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) to pay almost $120,000 for their “calculated and co-ordinated” campaign against Watpac Construction (Queensland) Pty Ltd. In her decision, Justice Berna Collier said a penalty against the CFMEU of al...
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Ignorance and lack of intent ‘may not escape accessorial liability'
The Federal Circuit Court has paved the way for the Fair Work Ombudsman's (FWO) complex sham contract case against trolley collectors after concluding there was a reasonable possibility the contractor companies and two directors were accessorily liable for underpayments. The decision surveyed whether intent and failure to enquire was necessary to p...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editors: Peter Schwab/Helen Jones. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Jetstar to reinstate attendant spooked by ‘bomb' device on plane
The Fair Work Commission has ordered Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd to reinstate a flight attendant it sacked for being unfit for work following psychological injuries she suffered after finding what looked like a bomb-like device on a flight. The tribunal heard evidence Monique Neeteson-Lemkes was a union delegate and had given evidence against Jetstar i...
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CFMEU hit hard over coercion campaign
The Federal Court has ordered the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Communication Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) to pay almost $120,000 for their “calculated and co-ordinated” campaign against Watpac Construction (Queensland) Pty Ltd. In her decision, Justice Berna Collier said a penalty against the CFMEU of al...
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Gostencnik could be out of a job under a Coalition govt
The Coalition has confirmed it will remove the new Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate (FWBII) director from his position if it is elected and will reinstate the Australia Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). FWBII director Val Gostencnik, who was appointed to the role last month, would then have to reapply for his position in the form...
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