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FW review submissions close today
The worst aspect of the Fair Work Act is it has reduced employers' ability to engage directly with their workers, the Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) says in its submission to the FW review. "Instead of advancing Australia's workplace culture, the FW Act has facilitated a return to workplace restrictions, demarcations, lower producti...
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Telco entitled to make changes to job during maternity leave: FWA
WFD: A telco accounts manager who returned from maternity leave to find her employer had given some of her accounts to others and taken away her support staff has lost her unfair dismissal claim after Fair Work Australia found her employer was entitled to make changes to her job. However, the tribunal criticised Soul Pattinson Telecommunications (S...
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FWA okays joining 24-hour actions to make 7-day strike
In a significant decision on the 'character of protected industrial action', Fair Work Australia has held the blocking together of separate 24-hour stoppages so it amounts to a seven-day strike on the EssonMobil Bass Strait gas project is valid protected industrial action. Senior Deputy President Ian Watson dismissed an s418 'stop industrial action...
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No fine for employer 'cashing out' annual leave
WFD: A company which unlawfully allowed a worker to 'cash out' his sick leave after the Fair Work laws came into play, has escaped prosecution as the employee did not claim any sick leave during the relevant period. The Federal Court heard manufacturing firm Jeld-Wen Glass Australia Pty Ltd made an Aust Workplace Agreement (AWA) with factory worker...
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Subject EAs to productivity test, restrict bargaining matters: ACCI
Employer groups the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), and Business Council of Australia (BCA) agree there is too wide a scope of matters upon which unions can take protected industrial action under the FW Act (See above, Qantas calls for return of 'prohibited content') . "The bargaining system has expanded union rights into matter...
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FW Act Review: Qantas calls for return of 'prohibited content'
Qantas has slammed the removal of 'prohibited content' provisions from the Fair Work Act, saying it has empowered unions to call the shots on business strategy. "The key issue for Qantas is not how to use the provisions of the FW Act to enhance productivity but rather how to resist the attempts by a number of unions to use the provisions of the FW ...
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Migration agents call for migrant workers union and harmonisation
The Migration Alliance (MA) - a professional body representing about 2,200 registered migration agents - has called for harmonisation between IR and migration laws to give migrant workers access to Fair Work Act protections. The Transport Workers Union and several other unions backed the submission , which has called for the establishment of a migr...
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Scientologists eschew fair pay: 'spiritual service is its own reward'
The Church of Scientology (CoS) made a brief submission to the Fair Work Act Review, saying it was a violation of human rights to force churches and other volunteer organisations to be covered by Fair Work laws. CoS Director of Public Affairs Reverend Mary Anderson said the FW Act had a valid purpose for commercial and industrial organisations, but...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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ACTU wants focus on bargaining and insecure work
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has been happy with most aspects of the FW laws but believes there should be some changes, starting with strengthening the bargaining system and protecting workers in insecure employment. The ACTU submission proposes a number of reforms which remain within the framework of the existing legislation. The suggest...
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Little has 'gone wrong' with FW Act but changes are needed: Academics
Standardising the time limit for unfair dismissal and general protections claims could reduce 'frivolous' claims, two leading IR academics have said in their submission on the Fair Work review. In a joint submission , Monash University Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth and University of Adelaide Professor Andrew Stewart said little had "gone wron...
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Port Kembla strike starts to bite as workers stood down without pay
More than 100 freight workers have been stood down without pay as rolling stoppages at the Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT) stretch into a third week ( WF18085 ) . Coal train hauler Pacific National Coal (PNC), which is not involved in the dispute, confirmed it has stood 108 workers responsible for loading and driving coal trains from 7am tomorrow ...
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Qantas pilots call for financial disclosure provisions in FW Act
The Australian International Pilots Association (AIPA) says the Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining provisions should be strengthened to force employers to hand over commercially sensitive financial information to bargaining representatives. In its submission to the FW Act Review, AIPA said Qantas provided its bargaining reps with scarce financia...
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Moves to ensure 'abandoned' workers see entitlements
Workers who are left without a job when their bosses abandon their company would be able to access their entitlements under a new Bill introduced to Parliament last week (February 15). The Corporations Amendment (Phoenixing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 will give the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) the power to order the win...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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ABCC loses union coercion case against CFMEU
The Federal Court has cleared a union official accused of placing undue pressure on a building contractor to make a union-approved enterprise agreement. The court heard the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) had tasked organiser Jason Bell with visiting construction sites in north-west Victoria to encourage employees to become un...
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Bring back AWA-style agreements with BOOT/NES protection: AiG
The Australian Industry Group says the country's IR system has gone backwards and has called for dramatic changes to the Fair Work Act including reintroducing a type of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA) but with better-off-overall-test (BOOT) and National Employment Standards protections. The no-holds-barred submission - titled Removing the Bar...
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Debate rages over impact of FIFO mining workforce in regional areas
Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) mining practices are taking jobs away from locals and destroying the social and economic fabric of parts of regional Australia, Independent MP Bob Katter says. In a submission to a Federal Government inquiry into FIFO work practices, Katter called for legislation to stop the trend. He said govts had failed to adequately respon...
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Hourly pay rate up but public sector wages still trail private
The wage price index (WPI) rose 0.9% in the December quarter, revealing public sector wage growth lags its private counterpart. The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for the December quarter 2011, show rates of pay in the public sector rose 0.7%, while private sector wages grew 0.9%. The figures are in line with the yearly trend to Dec, in wh...
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