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Redundancy not genuine due to failure to consider overseas jobs

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A company ordered to pay a retrenched employee about $65,000 because it did not look at redeploying him overseas has appealed to a Fair Work Commission full bench. In January 2014, Deputy President Anne Gooley slammed software company Ventyx for only notifying workers of their redundancy a day before their retrenchment. She found the company's use ...

Unions issue demands ahead of Qantas meeting

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The ACTU has demanded to know where Qantas job cuts will come from and has called for an independent financial analysis of the struggling airline's position ahead of a union meeting today. Qantas will meet the Transport Workers Union (TWU), Australian Services Union (ASU) and Flight Attendants Association of Australia. In a letter to Qantas chief e...

Emirates backflip on non-union EA vote

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Emirates Airlines has reversed a decision to put a non-union enterprise agreement (EA) to vote and has instead sought a further bargaining meeting. Emirates' current offer to the United Services Union (USU), Australian Services Union (ASU) and Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) is for two annual wage increases of 2.75% then ...

FWC bench ups w/end overtime pay

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Casuals in social and community care services must be paid weekend penalty rates for overtime hours although the penalty rates displace the regular casual loading, a Fair Work Commission full bench has found. The full bench ruling quashes Vice President Graeme Watson's award variation last year that saw casuals' weekend pay drop substantially durin...

FWBC goes hard on safety misuse

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The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and three of its officials have been fined a total of $38,500 for swearing at managers, soliciting union dues, and telling workers to down tools during a safety inspection at a Brisbane construction site. In an ex-tempore judgment on February 28, Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Burnett issue...

FWBC set to reopen Vic desal investigation; policy revamp

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FWBC director Nigel Hadgkiss' strong words on safety (see, FWBC goes hard on safety misuse ) come as the construction watchdog shifts its focus from wages and entitlements to its “core business”. That includes industrial action, right of entry, coercion, freedom of association and discrimination/adverse action, he said. During Senate Es...

Bench rejects ‘fair and sensible' interpretation of EA coverage

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld a strict interpretation of who is eligible to vote for enterprise agreements (EAs). The bench found it will be determined by who will necessarily be covered by the EA rather than a broader group of those who will likely be covered. The bench also ruled the cmn could not take into account what was “...

Joe de Bruyn confirms retirement

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Joe de Bruyn, national secretary of the shoppies' union for 35 years, has confirmed he will shift across to president at the end of his term in October to make way for NSW secretary Gerard Dwyer. Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) secretary de Bruyn told Workforce Daily speculation outgoing ALP Senator Don Farrell would take h...

Editorial Team

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com. Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Parties move to block FW Bill in Senate

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Labor has declared it will oppose the Federal Government's proposed Fair Work Act changes in the Senate, with the opposition accusing the Coalition of breaking its election promises. A spokesperson for opposition IR spokesman Brendan O'Connor has said “the opposition will oppose the legislation because in many parts it is a continuation of th...

Court challenges and appeals

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Communications Electrical Plumbing Union & Ors v Queensland Rail Authority reviewed: The Electrical Trades Union Queensland branch and four other unions are challenging provisions of the Qld Rail Transit Authority (QRTA) Act which purport to transfer the workforce into the state industrial relations system. Issue: Whether Qld Rail workers remai...

TWU to appeal against delivery drivers on retail award

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The Transport Workers Union will appeal a Federal Circuit Court ruling that Coles staff who deliver online orders should be covered by the retail not the road transport award. Coles Customer Service Agents (CSAs) take items from Coles stores, pack and deliver orders, and provide customer service to in-store and at customers' homes. On Friday (Febru...

Qantas rejects union demands

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Qantas has comprehensively rejected union demands to inspect its books and reconsider slashing jobs at a meeting on Wednesday (March 5). The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Transport Workers Union (TWU), Australian Services Union (ASU) and Flight Attendants Association of Australia met Qantas to demand the company consider alternatives t...

Editorial Team

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com. Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

MUA expected to issue fresh strike notice in offshore oil and gas

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Employers' calls for the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) to drop threatened strike action in Western Australia's offshore oil and gas industry and return to the bargaining table are likely to go unheeded, with the union expected to issue a fresh strike notice next month ( WF18995 ) . It follows a ruling last month by the Federal Court against the...

Late AFP worker had ‘irredeemable attitude': FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has rejected the unfair dismissal application of an Australian Federal Police (AFP) IT worker who repeatedly reported for work late and refused to commit to regular work start times. Commissioner Barbara Deegan upheld the direction to work “core hours” was a lawful direction and valid reason for dismissal despit...

Unions issue demands ahead of Qantas meeting

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WFD: The ACTU has demanded to know where Qantas job cuts will come from and has called for an independent financial analysis of the struggling airline's position ahead of a union meeting on Wednesday (March 5). Qantas met the Transport Workers Union (TWU), Australian Services Union (ASU) and Flight Attendants Association of Australia. In a letter t...

AFP worker had ‘irredeemable attitude': FWC

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has rejected the unfair dismissal application of an Australian Federal Police (AFP) IT worker who repeatedly reported for work late and refused to commit to regular work start times. Commissioner Barbara Deegan upheld the direction to work “core hours” was a lawful direction and valid reason for dismissal d...

Unions must take radical action or risk ‘managed decline': Lyons

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A senior ACTU official has called for unions to take “radical” action in the face of declining membership and in “a uniquely threatening moment in our history”. ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons played down calls for concessions or partnerships with “bosses” and urged unions not to be afraid of conflict. Speakin...

ASU takes Qantas to FWC

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WFD: Qantas has violated requirements to consult unions over workforce changes by offering redundancy to full time staff, the Australian Services Union (ASU) will tell the Fair Work Commission (FWC). On February 27 Qantas announced it would slash 5,000 jobs as part of a three-year $2b cost-cutting plan ( WF19045 ). ASU NSW secretary Sally McManus t...
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