The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has launched an online survey today (February 29) to gauge the problems facing casual university staff and identify badly performing institutions. The survey is targeted at all staff employed casually by any Australian uni during 2011 or 2012. The tertiary education sector has been severely affected by t...
Unis have been ‘unaccountable' on job security for too long: NTEU
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Striking miners take to airwaves
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has turned to TV in its fight for improved job security, rosters and safety at BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance's (BMA's) Bowen Basin mines. In a TV ad authorised by CFMEU Qld district president Steve Smyth and screening on Central Queensland television this week, Pike River disaster victim ...
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CMFEU loses round 1 in fight against FIFO lockout decision
A Federal Magistrates Court decision allowing employers to lock out fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers from company-provided accommodation during industrial action has become a legal battleground testing the meaning of 'payment' in the Fair Work Act. The Construction Forestry Energy Mining Union (CFMEU) has lost its bid to have its appeal heard by a Ful...
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NZ union seeks MUA help to counter 'scab' labour
Striking New Zealand dock workers are seeking Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) support to counter alleged attempts by Ports of Auckland to advertise for Australian "strike breakers". Maritime Union of NZ president Garry Parsloe told Workforce Daily he had been in Australia this week "talking to the MUA and others" about company ads appearing on Au...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Journalists: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Govt to legislate new gender powers
Employers are set to face rigorous and extensive new gender equity reporting requirements that will be reviewed by their shareholders, employees and employee representative organisations, as well as by the revamped Workplace Gender Equality Agency. On press day the Federal Government tabled the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace (EOWW) Am...
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ABCC to become 'toothless mouse suffocating in red tape': Libs
The Coalition has failed to delay the abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), after losing a bid for a second inquiry into the ABCC Bill to analyse last-minute Greens amendments. The Lower House passed the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2012 on February 16 aft...
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Justice Ross takes up FWA reins, as SDP Acton steps down from Panel
Justice Iain Ross officially started as Fair Work Australia President today, replacing Justice Geoffrey Giudice who took early retirement on Wednesday (February 29). Meanwhile, Senior Deputy President Jennifer Acton has announced she is stepping down as head of the Termination of Employment Panel. Her period as head has seen fundamental changes to ...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Journalists: Steve Andrew, David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718115.
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Riordan among 'balanced' package of appointments
WFD: Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten made five other important FWA appointments on Friday after appointing Justice Iain Ross president (see, New blood for FWA as Justice Ross takes his seat , above) . "This is a carefully balanced package of appointments comprising candidates who are well qualified and will bring with them a depth of expe...
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Govt to legislate new gender powers
WFD: Employers are set to face rigorous and extensive new gender equity reporting requirements with reports to be reviewed by their shareholders, employees and employee representative organisations, as well as by the revamped Workplace Gender Equality Agency. The Federal Government this week tabled the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace (...
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$11k fine for 'deliberately' underpaying 'immature' worker
The Federal Magistrates Court has come down hard on an employer who deliberately underpaid a worker because it believed he was intellectually slow and not worth the award rate of pay. The court heard Davin McKay, a man in his 20s, received a maximum of $12.76 per hour - just more than half of the rate he was entitled to - while working in a regiona...
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Striking miners take to airwaves
WFD: The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has turned to TV in its fight for improved job security, rosters and safety at BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance's (BMA's) Bowen Basin mines. In a TV ad authorised by CFMEU Qld district president Steve Smyth and screening on Central Queensland television this week, Pike River disaster vi...
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TWU considers legal options over $707k fine in Qantas casuals dispute
WFD: A Federal Court Full Court ruling upholding a $707,000 fine imposed on the Transport Workers Union (TWU) for unprotected industrial action at Qantas in 2009 may be headed to the High Court. A TWU spokesperson this week (February 28) told Workforce Daily the union had 28 days to decide whether to appeal the Feb 22 finding. "We are considering o...
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Federal Court judge refers ADJ Contracting decision to Full Court
A Full Court of the Federal Court will determine whether to allow an employer appeal against a controversial Fair Work Australia decision on pattern bargaining. Federal Court Justice Peter Gray has referred the ADJ Contracting case to the Full Court, to be heard from April 30. The Australian Industry Group is appealing a split FWA full bench decisi...
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Bob Carr is new Foreign Minister
Former Workforce contributor - and ex-NSW premier - Bob Carr will be Australia's new Foreign Minister, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today (March 2). Carr was NSW Premier between 1995 and 2005 and towards the end of his tenure angered unions when he looked at transferring the state's Industrial Relations Commission powers to the Federal Go...
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News Ltd sees off adverse action claim
WFD: News Ltd has defeated an adverse action claim brought by a printer who claimed he had been sacked for complaining about the company's decision to refuse him supplementary personal leave. The Federal Magistrates Court heard News subsidiary Queensland Newspapers Ltd terminated Ron Gofton's employment on February 4, 2010. Gofton had worked for th...
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Coles prosecuted
WFD: The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) is prosecuting Coles Supermarkets and three trolley collection operators for allegedly underpaying four Adelaide trolley collectors $143,000. All four collectors were Indian men in their 20s who spoke limited English. They were allegedly underpaid while working at the West Lakes shopping centre between October 200...
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Vic nurses defy court orders
WFD: Victorian nurses defied a Federal Court order to stop industrial action with rolling stoppages continuing at state hospitals this week. Justice Richard Tracey late on Tuesday (February 28) ordered the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) to cancel all unprotected action by 6.30pm that night. In granting the interlocutory injunction sought by th...
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NZ union seeks MUA help to counter 'scab' labour
WFD: Striking New Zealand dock workers are seeking Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) support to counter alleged attempts by Ports of Auckland to advertise for Australian “strike breakers”. Maritime Union of NZ president Garry Parsloe yesterday (March 1) told Workforce Daily he had been in Australia this week “talking to the MUA an...
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