WFD: An industry super fund employee has been forced to admit that she deliberately lied to the Trade Union Royal Commission about leaking confidential member data to construction union boss Brian Parker. In extraordinary scenes at the end of the cmn's hearing on Friday (October 3), CBUS senior member coordinator Lisa Zanatta was forced to confess ...
CBUS witness admits to lying to protect Parker
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Union royal cmn extended and expanded to concealment
WFD: The Federal Government has announced it will extend the Trade Union Royal Commission until December 31, 2015 and add a term of reference to deal with concealment of other unlawful conduct. The move was prompted by a letter Commissioner Dyson Heydon sent to Attorney General (AG) Senator George Brandis on October 2. Cmr Heydon wrote that the cmn...
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Driscoll charged with fraud and soliciting secret payments
WFD: The former head of a Queensland employer group Scott Driscoll has been charged with more than one million dollars worth of fraud and solicitation of secret commissions as well as falsification of records. Workforce first broke news of Driscoll's actions in January 2013 (WF18535). The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) charged the 39-year-ol...
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Diary
IR Society of South Australia Conference: October 17, Adelaide. More info here . ‘Is there really an Industrial Relations Club?' by RMIT University Professor Anthony Forsyth: October 22, 5:30pm, RMIT. More info here . Australian Labour Law Association Conference ‘Under the Microscope: The Next Phase of Australian Labour Law?': November ...
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Business bears greater onus for supply chain breaches: lawyer
Employers will have to conduct greater due diligence in their supply contracts following Coles' hefty enforceable undertaking around claims it was responsible for its trolley collection providers' underpayments, a senior workplace lawyer has warned (see Coles agrees to enforceable undertaking over trolley collector above). DLA Piper partner Andrew ...
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Editorial Team
Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Journalists: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021719355. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Baiada contractor engaged workers on sham contracts
In a potential shakeup to poultry producer Baiada's operations, the Fair Work Commission has found that one of its labour hire providers has been engaging bone workers on sham contracts. Senior Deputy President Matthew O'Callaghan made the finding in a September unfair dismissal decision that is now being appealed. Yesterday (October 9), the FWC or...
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HSU claims adverse action against delegate by Red Cross
The Health Services Union Victoria no3 branch (HSU) has brought an urgent Federal Court claim against the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to stop it taking disciplinary action against a union delegate involved in enterprise bargaining. After Red Cross employees voted down an enterprise agreement, HSU delegate Silvia Gonzalez emailed staff on Aug...
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CPSU plans first strike at Human Services
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is today seeking a protected action ballot order at the largest Commonwealth Govt agency, the Department of Human Services (DHS). The move follows the CPSU governing council voting unanimously to endorse “mobilising workers and commencing preparations to allow [them] to take protected industrial ac...
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CBUS relaunches leak investigation
Industry superannuation fund CBUS has suspended a senior employee after she confessed to lying to the royal cmn about passing confidential employee data to the construction union. CBUS confirmed it had relaunched an internal investigation into the leaked data, with assistance from KPMG, and its board will consider reviewing governance issues. Asked...
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Dismissals unjust despite serious safety lapse
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held two crane operators were unfairly dismissed despite finding there was a valid reason for termination because they failed to notice damage to the crane's hoist wire. The cmn found the dismissals were unjust because the employer did not identify the precise extent and nature of damage before dismissing them. In...
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Business bears greater onus for supply chain breaches: lawyer
Employers will have to conduct greater due diligence in their supply contracts following Coles' hefty enforceable undertaking around claims it was responsible for its trolley collection providers' underpayments, a senior workplace lawyer has warned (see Coles agrees to enforceable undertaking over trolley collector above). DLA Piper partner Andrew ...
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Aurizon's ambiguous job security clause limited: FWC
Unions have failed to establish that a “maximizing employment security” enterprise agreement (EA) clause prevents Aurizon from outsourcing positions to boost profits. The Rail Tram Bus Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the Electrical Trades Union had joined together in a dispute application at the Fair Work Commissio...
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Asmar says opponent hasn't worked since $240k Williamson-era payout
Health Services Union Victoria No 1 branch (HSU) secretary Diana Asmar has alleged her opponent in the union's election Jamie Martorana should be barred from running because he hasn't worked in the health industry since he resigned and received a $240k severance payout from the union in 2010. Asmar has brought a Federal Court action challenging Mar...
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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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Worker accused of ‘exposing her assets' fails to uncover complainant
The West Australian (WA) Supreme Court has upheld the confidential nature of workplace complaints by refusing to divulge the identity of a worker who complained his female colleague had been flashing her breasts to the largely male workforce. Despite claims the complaint was false and defamatory, the court said revealing the complainant's identity ...
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MUA on 5 day strike at Gorgon supply base
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) will take five consecutive 24-hour strikes at Mermaid Marine's Dampier supply base from tomorrow (October 15). Last week the MUA gave Mermaid Marine Australia Ltd notice that 65 stevedores would take the protected action at the base, which supplies the Gorgon gas project. MUA WA assistant branch secretary Doug ...
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Jackson medically incapacitated, say her lawyers
Kathy Jackson's lawyers have launched an 11 th hour bid to delay Health Services Union (HSU) litigation against her in the Federal Court until February 2015, claiming she is too unwell to give instructions to defend the case. Despite noting her many “inexcusable” failures to meet court orders, Justice Richard Tracey gave Jackson until e...
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Bar took adverse action by cutting questioning casual from roster
The company that owns inner-Sydney's White Horse Hotel has been fined $11k because it cut a casual worker's shifts after he made enquiries about not being paid the correct hourly rate. The Federal Circuit Court's penalty included $2,500 for hurt and humiliation after the worker claimed the owners' “rude, misleading and threatening” resp...
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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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