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Earnings fall largest in 10 years as union membership restarts decline

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WFD : Trade union membership has fallen to new lows while real median weekly earnings dropped for the first time since the global financial crisis, the latest data reveals. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ' (ABS) ‘Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership' data for the year to August 2013 revealed that union membership fell t...

Qantas axes local, not offshore, jobs

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WFD : The Australian Services Union (ASU) has condemned Qantas' plan to close its telephone sales centres in Brisbane and Queensland while maintaining its offshore centres, describing it as a “breach of faith” to its Australian employees. The union has also rejected Qantas' inter-state redeployment offer due to low relocation benefits a...

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com. Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021719175. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Workers still have fighting chance at reinstatement

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WFD: Fair Work Commission Vice President Adam Hatcher has granted reinstatement to an employee validly dismissed for workplace fighting, finding concerns not to condone fighting do not automatically preclude reinstatement. On November 5, 2013, Coles Group Supply Chain summarily dismissed David Browne for fighting with co-worker Ryan Hearne at work....

Toyota and unions make side deal over redundancy variations

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WFD: Toyota has reached agreement with unions on workers' redundancy packages, resolving one of the final steps in the company's closure arrangements. Parties are keeping confidential the package - which will be enforced as a deed - because of past media attacks on the Toyota workforce and their conditions, according to Australian Manufacturing Wor...

Teekay and MUA in talks to head off strike

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WFD: The Maritime Union of Australia Western Australia branch (MUA) and Teekay Shipping were in talks on Thursday (June 12) aimed at heading off possible strike action by tug boat crews at the world's biggest bulk export terminal in Port Headland, Western Australia. It follows stoppages of up to 48-hours being voted up this week by the port's engin...

ATO took unlawful industrial action against depressed employee: FWC

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WFD: The Australian Tax Office (ATO) illegally locked out an allegedly bullied worker on stress leave, deliberately misled him about an assessment of his fitness to return and pressured an agency-paid doctor to report he was unfit for work, the Fair Work Commission has found. In a scathing decision, Commissioner Bernie Riordan held the ATO's “...

Harm to minority not enough to stop Patrick redundancies

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has refused to stop Patrick Stevedores' redundancy process at Melbourne Port, finding an order's potential harm to the company and majority of workers outweighed harm to others who first wanted arbitration of a labour model.In September 2013 Patrick notified the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) it would close Me...

Retail labour costs up 60%, retail prices just 10%: PC report

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WFD: Since 1997 the price of retailers' labour - its largest business cost -- has increased at a faster rate than retail prices, a new Productivity Commission (PC) report reveals. The PC interim report 'Relative Costs of Doing Business in Australia: Retail Trade' revealed the wage price index had risen 60% compared to about 10% for retail prices si...

MUA officials fined for walk off

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The Maritime Union of Australia NSW branch and three of its officials have been fined a total of $41,000 for taking unprotected industrial action at DP World's Port Botany stevedoring site in December 2012. The union was fined $30,000, branch secretary Paul McAleer $8,000 and deputy branch secretary Paul Keating $3,000. The Federal Court heard the ...

TCFUA launches outworker suit

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WFD: The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) has brought action against 23 fashion companies in the Federal Circuit Court over alleged breaches of outworker protections in industrial instruments. The TCFUA has alleged breaches of the companies' obligations to ensure the conditions of outworkers at the end of the supply chain, a...

Managing director beat employer to issue notice: keeps $154k

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WFD: The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected an employer's appeal against a $154k award to a former executive, finding it was not able to terminate the employment of a worker who had already given notice. Peter Newsom was the managing director of Adventure World Travel Pty Ltd (AWT), in the NRMA group, from February 1, 2007. Newsom's contract provided...

Ross suspends default fund review

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WFD: Fair Work Commission (FWC) President Justice Iain Ross has suspended the superannuation default fund review, ordering the current panel not to deal with the matter after the Federal Court found it was invalidly constituted. On Friday (June 6) the Federal Court upheld the Financial Services Council's (FSC) challenge of the constitution of the p...

Restaurants fined $334k after paying employees with pizza and soft drink

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WFD: Two Melbourne restaurants have been fined a total of $334,000 after they paid their mainly teenage workforce with pizza and soft drink. “Such a practice belongs in the dark ages,” Judge John O'Sullivan said in his decision handed down in the Federal Circuit Court last week. Judge O'Sullivan found the 111 mostly teenage employees - ...

Default fund review panel invalid

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WFD: The Full Federal Court has upheld the Financial Services Council's (FSC) challenge of the constitution of the default superannuation fund review ( WF19125 ) . On Friday (June 6) the full court declared Fair Work Commission President Justice Iain Ross' decision to appoint himself to the expert panel was not valid and the panel was not correctly...

WA minimum wage increase widens gap with national rate

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WFD: The Western Australia Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) has ordered a $20 a week increase to the state minimum wage, slightly higher than last week's Fair Work Commission $18.70 national increase ( WF19175 ). The WA minimum wage increase equates to about 3.09%, lifting it from $645.90 to $665.90 a week, effective from July 1, 2014. All s...

MUA restarts Tidewater strike threat

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WFD: The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is set to take 24-hour strike action in the offshore oil and gas industry next week, ahead of scheduled hearings for claims it has breached good faith bargaining requirements. The MUA gave West Australia shipping operator Tidewater Marine notice workers would take protected action from 4am on Monday (June ...

Diary

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Advanced Employment Law Conference : July 16, Sydney College of Law. More info here . Workplace Research Centre Labour Law Conference: August 25, More info here . Regulation and Control of Labour Organisations lecture series: August 23, 30, September 6, 13, University of NSW Faculty of Law. Taught and conceived by former Attorney-General Robert McC...

Unions eschew budget strike for now

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Peak union bodies are planning a national rally on July 6 to protest the budget but are so far resisting calls to consider industrial action, with Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon blocking yesterday's combined delegates meeting from voting on the option (June 12). At the same time, the Victoria Trades Hall Council (VTHC) conducted a mass rally of m...

Editorial Team

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com. Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021719185. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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