The Fair Work Commission has rejected a chiropractor's unfair dismissal claim despite finding the dismissal was inconsistent with the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code. The case was a rare instance of a dismissal failing the test in the code but nevertheless being found fair. It came about because conduct discovered after termination cannot be con...
Conduct found after dismissal justifies small business sacking
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Royal Cmn targets Qld construction
The Trade Union Royal Commission will continue in Brisbane on Monday (August 4) for hearings into the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The week's hearing will include two witnesses from Hindmarsh Constructions, with national general manager Medy Hassan and Qld construction manager Ian Busch called to appear. The Royal Cmn has call...
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MEAA seeks to force AFL to bargain with journos
The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) is seeking a majority support determination (MSD) to force AFL Media to bargain with its in-house journalists, after the sporting giant refused to consider moving them off individual contracts. MEAA Victorian secretary Louise Connor told Workforce the union had applied for an MSD in the Fair Work Commiss...
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Prison strike allowed despite violence concerns
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has set aside interim orders banning protected action at Port Phillip's maximum security prison after the cmn found it could not yet conclude the action would endanger the welfare of the prison population. G4S Custodial Services had sought to argue correctional officers' threatened work stoppages would lead to lockdow...
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DP astounded by ‘barefaced fantasy and delusion' in fraudster's claims
In a scathing rejection of an unfair dismissal claim, Fair Work Commission (FWC) Deputy President Peter Sams has blasted a fork lift driver for his “farrago of lies” and “ridiculously implausible explanations” in the face of allegations of fraud and dishonesty. TNT Australia had fired Miroslav Vujica from its NSW site on Jan...
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Royal Cmn hears CFMEU coerced payments to redundancy funds
The Trade Union Royal Commission has heard Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Queensland branch officials coerced a company into making a union agreement and paying into union-nominated redundancy, income protection and sick leave insurance schemes. Counsel assisting the cmn Jeremy Stoljar SC suggested the CFMEU preferred the schemes...
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Full Court to determine interplay of civil and criminal in Grocon case
A Full Federal Court will this week hear the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union Victoria branch's (CFMEU) bid to delay claims of coercion against it over the Grocon blockade pending the determination of its appeal of criminal contempt findings. The Full Court - Justices John Buchanan, Michelle Gordon and Michael Wigney - is expected to deter...
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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
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Time of accrual does not determine federal long service leave coverage
A Full Federal Court has held that workers only have to be covered by federal long service leave (LSL) provisions, rather than have reached the point where it started to accrue, for them to be barred from state LSL entitlements. Justice Anna Katzmann's ruling - with Justices Anthony Besanko and Chris Greenwood in agreement - overturned a South Aust...
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Hardship fund paid strike pay, Royal Cmn hears
The Trade Union Royal Commission has heard hardship funds reserved for unemployed workers were used to pay workers on strike, despite warnings from employer groups that jointly managed the funds with unions. Hearings into the Building Employees Redundancy Trust (BERT) and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) continued in Brisbane t...
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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
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FWBC warns on CFMEU rally at Royal Cmn
Fair Work Building & Construction (FWBC) has warned workers not to skip work to attend rallies, after a large union presence outside the Trade Union Royal Commission this morning. More than a thousand Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and other union members gathered outside the cmn on Wednesday (August 6). The workers formed a ...
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ACCER challenges ‘exclusion' of families from min wage decision
The Australian Catholic Council of Employment Relations (ACCER) has called on the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to address what it says is a surprising and precedent decision in this year's annual wage review to adopt the “single person test” when setting minimum wage increases. The decision is potentially controversial in the face of the ...
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Strike payments justified: CFMEU Qld sec
In a marathon two-day session in the Trade Union Royal Commission witness box, Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Qld secretary Michael Ravbar has conceded hardship funds were paid to striking workers despite trust requirements only to pay unemployed workers. But in a statement and at Wednesday and Thursday's (August 6 and 7) hearing...
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SDA wins higher award rates despite retailer collapse
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has terminated a retail giant's expired enterprise agreement (EA) and placed its employees on the modern award, despite the retailer going into voluntary administration and claiming the move would exacerbate its financial position. Retail Adventures - bought by Discount Superstores Group (DSG) when it collapsed in Oct...
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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
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Cmn hears CFMEU defied orders to stop Hindmarsh strike
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) organised illegal industrial action in defiance of both court and Fair Work Commission (FWC) orders to protest the sacking of a union delegate at a Hindmarsh Constructions site, the Trade Union Royal Commission has heard. Zoran Bogunovic was a Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) delegate at Hind...
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AIMPE industrial action in tatters
A planning mix-up has left the Australian Institute of Marine & Power Engineers (AIMPE)'s industrial action against Teekay Shipping in tatters - and union members demanding answers. Engineers on tugboats at Port Hedland were set to strike for four hours on Saturday morning (August 9) and again on Monday and Wednesday in support of EA demands. H...
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FWO launches inquiry after spike in working holiday visa exploitation
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has this week announced it will review the wages and conditions of overseas workers on working holiday visas following a sharp increase in claims that they are being exploited as free labour. The subclass 417 (s417) visa is a temporary visa the Department of Immigration & Border Protection (DIPB) issues to young pe...
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