WFD: The Fair Work Ombudsman is taking action against Jetstar over workplace breaches in a case examining [PS1] how the Fair Work Act covers overseas-based workers. The FWO alleges NZ-based Jetstar Airways Ltd breached Australian workplace laws by engaging six trainee pilots on NZ individual contracts when it was "foreseeable the work they were to ...
FWO warns multinationals re o/s workers in Jetstar test case
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718165.
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AiG challenges FWA's 'unworkable' 'continuous service' decision
WFD: Ai Group has lodged an appeal against a Fair Work Australia decision that found paid workers' compensation absences counted towards an employee's continuous service. The appeal will challenge the tribunal's interpretation of 'service' and 'continuous service' in the Fair Work Act, which AiG believes will have widespread ramifications for deter...
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Workforce back on April 16
The Workforce team wishes readers a happy Easter. We will resume publication of Workforce Daily on April 16, with our weekly edition, Workforce , to resume on April 20.
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Power provider in ‘unique position' wins seven-day notice for action
In a rare use of its discretionary powers, Fair Work Australia has required power workers to give seven-days notice of industrial action. The tribunal found the energy provider's exceptional market position and the complexity involved in shutting down its generators justified the notice extension. Loy Yang Power Management (LYP) produces about 47% ...
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Toyota jobs cull begins
Toyota started terminating employees at its Altona plant in Victoria today as part of job cull announced three months ago ( WF18062 ). The process started at 7am this morning and will continue tomorrow, the company said. Security guards were at the Altona site today, but a Toyota spokesperson said their presence was "just to oversee and to help wor...
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FWA challenges FWO on leave loading payable on termination
Fair Work Australia has found an agreement that did not pay annual leave loading on termination did not contravene the National Employment Standards (NES) - despite Fair Work Ombudsman advice stating otherwise. However, the FWO has refused to modify its advice because the FWA decision was the result of uncontested proceedings. The Goodstart Early L...
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Workforce is back
Workforce Daily has resumed publication today following the Easter break. Our main weekly edition Workforce will be back on Friday (April 20).
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Cmr doesn't bite at novel Restaurant Award casual penalty rate argument
Fair Work Australia has found suspect a Top End employer's novel argument to support doing away with weekend penalty rates for casuals. The employer unsuccessfully argued the wording of the Restaurant Industry Award 2010 (RIA) only requires the payment of weekend penalty rates where the casual employee is performing 'ordinary time' - and not 'overt...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Employer appeals landmark urine testing decision
Endeavour Energy will lodge an appeal against Fair Work Australia's precedent-setting decision which approved swab tests for drug and alcohol testing and found urine testing was unjust and unreasonable (WF18155) . The state-owned corporation and major NSW energy distributor will seek to clarify the status of urine testing. It claimed Deputy Preside...
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Toyota redundancy process explodes in IR, HR and PR disaster
Toyota's handling of pre-announced ( WF18062 ) mass lay-offs at its Altona plant in Melbourne has exploded into a public relations and IR nightmare, with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) considering what could, in effect, be Australia's first 'class action' unfair dismissal claim for 350 workers. AMWU national vehicle division secr...
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IAG sets new parental leave benchmark ... post EBA negotiations
A decision by one of the country's leading insurers to double the first six weeks' pay of employees returning from parental leave has attracted generally positive response from unions and employers - but upset the Finance Sector Union. Finance Sector Union secretary Leon Carter told Workforce associate news service HR Report the finance and insuran...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Bench upholds employer appeal over ‘unfairly chosen' workers
A Fair Work Australia full bench has refined the meaning of “fairly chosen” workers for voting up enterprise agreements after it ruled a primary judge erred when he held a company that deployed workers project to project should have included a “much more representative group” in its regional enterprise agreement. With FWA Pr...
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Insecure work a scourge on nation's productivity: Howe
Former Keating government deputy prime minister Brian Howe has warned employer groups to take a closer look at the rise of insecure work and its impact on productivity. In a speech to the National Press Club today, Howe, who chairs the independent inquiry into insecure work, said the "greatest cost of insecure work is the impact it is having on pro...
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Significant ruling on national voting rights for state-registered unions
In a significant decision affecting national unions with state-registered entities, the Federal Court has held NSW Electrical Trades Union (ETU) members cannot vote in Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) electrical division national elections as its members are exempt from paying national dues. The decision effectively limits the NSW ET...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Maurice Blackburn sizes up Toyota workers for adverse action claims
At press time, prominent IR law firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers was interviewing dozens of sacked Toyota shop stewards to assess their potential for adverse action claims. Toyota made the stewards and some health and safety representatives redundant this week as part of a total cull of 350 workers (WF18172). Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (A...
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Asciano and the MUA reach agreement - and that's ‘final'
Five months after reaching an in-principle agreement and numerous false starts, Asciano and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) have fianlly put their beleaguered enterprise agreement for Patrick dockworkers to bed. In a joint announcement to the ASX this morning, Asciano and the MUA confirmed they had reached agreement on "all outstanding items"...
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