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Labor seeks to ensure aged-care worker pay rises

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A Labor-Greens Senate majority was this afternoon set to vote up a motion that would renew the availability of the Labor Government's aged-care workforce supplement despite the Coalition Government putting a stop to them. However, the Govt has said it “will ensure its policy is given effect”. On September 25, Minister for Social Service...

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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

Fiduciary duty in employment r/ship a question of degree: Fed Court

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In a decision exploring fiduciary duty in the employment relationship, the Federal Court is poised to award hefty damages against a consultant who stole confidential materials from his former employer and improperly used a top secret clearance to win federal government training contracts. Justice Lindsay Foster found consultant Nigel Huckstep stole...

Fed Govt ends aged-care pay boost

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The Federal Government has used its House of Representative numbers to disallow the aged-care workforce subsidies boosting pay, countering a Senate motion that had reopened the application process. On Thursday (December 12), Labor and The Greens voted together on a Senate motion disallowing social services minister Kevin Andrews' September determin...

Toyota boss ponders appeal in wake of injunction against worker ballot

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Toyota is considering appealing a Federal Court injunction stopping it from polling employees on accepting a deal to reduce some terms and conditions, Toyota president Mad Yasuda has confirmed. Late yesterday (December 12), Justice Mordy Bromberg scuppered Toyota's plan to cut costs by off-setting scheduled pay increases with downgraded terms and c...

Toyota breached no extra claims EA clause, but clause not set in stone

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WFD: The Federal Court has found Toyota breached a no extra claims clause in its Altona plant enterprise agreement (EA) by asking employees to consider reduced entitlements and conditions . In a 42-page decision, Justice Mordy Bromberg said the proceedings brought by Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) shop stewards raised "complicated is...

Lower House passes ROC Bill but expanded Senate probe awaits

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The House of Representatives has passed the Coalition's Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013. However, the Bill could yet be blocked in the Senate with Labor and the Greens set to conduct an expanded inquiry into the so-called ROC Bill as well as the Coalition's Bill re-establishing the Australian Building Construction Commissio...

Fed Court to decide on Toyota vote

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WFD: As reported in Workforce Daily this week, senior shop stewards from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) launched legal action last month, arguing Toyota's vote set for pressday (Dec 13) and tomorrow went against its enterprise agreement's (EA) "no extra claims" clause. Toyota proposed a raft ...

Govt individual rights inquiry will focus on workplace relations laws

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WFD: Attorney-General George Brandis has targeted workplace relations in his extremely broad review of Commonwealth legal limits on "traditional rights, freedoms and privileges". On Wednesday (December 11), Brandis released the terms of references for the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) review into all Commonwealth laws, specifying a partic...

CEPU denied procedural fairness in Qld hospital strikes: Full Court

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WFD: In a decision that gives unions a greater opportunity to respond to stop orders, a Federal Full Court majority has quashed a s418 order against the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU). It found the union should have had an extra day to consider allegations it was taking illegal strike action alongside construction unions at the Que...

Holden to exit, blaming high production costs

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WFD: General Motors Holden (GM) this week announced it will cease manufacturing in Australia by the end of 2017, but has promised to work with unions to ensure the "best possible transition" for its workforce. GM will operate as a national sales company in Australia and New Zealand, with a national parts distribution centre and global design studio...

Unions to push for generous redundancies for Holden workers

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WFD: Preliminary talks on a redundancy package for Holden's 1,750 South Australian and 1,200 Victorian manufacturing workers were set to start on pressday (December 13). Under the General Motors Holden enterprise agreement, workers taking voluntary redundancy are guaranteed 3.5 weeks' pay for every year of service. Compulsory redundancies require s...

Car collapse leaves AMWU 'hurting'

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WFD: The toll of successive car industry collapses has hurt the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), with membership set to plummet to a new low with Holden's exit in 2017 (above) - and the likely departure of Toyota from Australia. From 200,000 members in 2005 the union now has about 120,000, AMWU SA branch secretary John Camillo confirm...

Debt collector's Facebook posts repudiated employment contract

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has held a worker's Facebook posts criticising a business-related organisation and making a sexually suggestive "joke" to a new employee were serious misconduct and a repudiation of the employment contract. Deputy President Peter Sams took into account the employer's social media policies and training. But he said comm...

Newman caves on interim pay rise

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WFD: The Queensland Government this week gave an interim pay increase to public sector workers, but unions are still furious it has taken a year of pressure to win a rise which will only be backdated to December 1, 2013. Premier Campbell Newman has written to Together and other unions promising to issue a directive for 2.2% a year interim pay rises...

Vic doctors settle for 10% over four but paramedics refuse to budge

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WFD: Victorian paramedics rallied outside state parliament on Wednesday (December 11) in protest over the Vic Government's 12%-over-three-years pay offer. The paramedics are the last of the state's public sector health employees to negotiate an enterprise bargaining agreement (EA) after public hospital doctors accepted a 10%-over-four-years deal ea...

Fiduciary duty in employment r/ship a question of degree: Fed Court

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WFD: In a decision exploring fiduciary duty in the employment relationship, the Federal Court is poised to award hefty damages against a consultant who stole confidential materials from his former employer and improperly used a top secret clearance to win federal government training contracts. Justice Lindsay Foster found consultant Nigel Huckstep ...

Workplace sexual predator ordered to pay woman $476k in damages

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WFD: In a sordid case of sexually predatory behaviour in the workplace, the Federal Court has ordered an accountant to pay a woman almost half a million dollars in damages for relentlessly sexually harassing her over several days in 2009. The woman' alleged the accountant - placed at her firm as a contractor by recruitment company Robert Walters Pt...

FWC rejects CFMEU leave approval calculation

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has determined that all workers - and not just employees - were to be counted towards an enterprise agreement (EA) clause determining whether absences were so high that employees could not get automatic leave approval. The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) applied to the FWC to deal with a dispute...

Govt urges return of childcare wage supplements

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WFD: The Coalition Government has asked childcare providers to return their wage supplements awarded under the Early Years Quality Fund (EYQF) despite saying it would honour all agreements signed under Labor ( WF18765 ). The announcement on Tuesday (December 10) by assistant education minister Sussan Ley came after she released a Coalition-commissi...
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