Bechtel was standing firm this morning (August 8) against Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) protected industrial action aimed at three-weeks on, one-week off work rosters for construction workers at its Curtis Island LNG project in Queensland. A CFMEU picket yesterday at Gladstone ferry terminals ground traffic in the area to a halt...
Bechtel fights 2014 start to 3:1 rosters at Curtis Island
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CSR Gyprock joins Ausreo in employee lockouts
CSR Gyprock is the latest western Sydney employer to lock out employees, this week joining Ausreo whose lock-out began seven weeks ago. United Voice assistant sec David McElrae told Workforce 50 workers had been locked out since Monday (August 4) after bargaining negotiations which started in May stalled. McElrae said “UV met with them today....
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Strike payments justified: CFMEU Qld sec
WFD: 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) he...
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Cmn hears CFMEU defied orders to stop Hindmarsh strike
WFD: 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 on August 6. Zoran Bogunovic was a Builders Labourers Federation (BLF)...
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ACCER challenges ‘exclusion' of families from min wage decision
WFD: 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...
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Royal Cmn hears CFMEU coerced payments to redundancy funds
WFD: 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 sc...
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Hardship fund paid strike pay, Royal Cmn hears
WFD: 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 Brisb...
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Full Court to determine interplay of civil and criminal in Grocon case
WFD: 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 ...
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FWBC warns on CFMEU rally at Royal Cmn
WFD: 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 on Wednesday morning. More than a thousand Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and other union members gathered outside the cmn on August 6. The workers formed a...
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Time of accrual does not determine federal long service leave coverage
WFD: 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...
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Unions call for 457 visa crackdown
Unions have seized on reports of business rorting of the subclass 457 visa scheme to call for labour market testing. Fairfax media reports claimed Murphy Pipe & Civil (MPC) misled the immigration department to help workers fraudulently obtain subclass 457 visas to work at Qld's Curtis gas project and WA's Sino Iron project. The reports claimed ...
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CFMEU and AMWU announce landmark ‘split ticket' in WA
A landmark agreement between the Western Australia branches of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) will see riggers and scaffolders in WA hold a split ticket giving membership of both unions. They will be financial in both unions and have all their membership benefits, incl...
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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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DP astounded by ‘barefaced fantasy and delusion' in fraudster's claims
WFD: 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 o...
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Editorial Team
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: 314021719265. Twitter:@WorkforceTR
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Court rejects TWU claim day workers are shift workers
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has failed to win shift entitlements for employees working within ordinary hours in a claim that would have affected almost the entire transport industry. The TWU adopted a literal interpretation of the Transport Workers (Distribution Facilities) Award 2004 to argue in the Federal Court Linfox's enterprise agreemen...
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Misconduct can't convert termination to ‘with cause': court
The Full South Australian Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a council forced to pay out a 12-month notice period for its sacked CEO, finding alleged wrongdoing could not convert the termination to one “for cause”. The case demonstrated conduct discovered after termination may help an employer defend a wrongful dismissal claim, bu...
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$90k penalties for labour hire underpayment scheme
The Federal Court has fined a carwash company and two individuals a total of $90k for underpaying workers $177k by setting up a series of labour hire companies to disguise their true employer. The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) prosecuted Crystal Carwash Cafe, its director Anthony Sahade, manager Peter Khouri and 10 labour hire companies they set up. FW...
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Editorial Team
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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Renewable energy options for EAs
Unions are pushing for enterprise agreement provisions that would allow employees to elect to use their annual wage increase to purchase solar energy units from a renewable energy cooperate. The not-for-profit Earthworker Cooperative, which has partnered with unions, small businesses and community groups, includes supporting green manufacturing job...
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