The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has warned a leagues club it may not be allowed to discipline an employee for refusing to remove a lip ring because she was hired before it instituted a policy banning them. And besides, society now accepted piercings and tattoos, Deputy President Peter Sams said. In October 2013 Dapto Leagues Club Ltd introduced a ne...
Times have changed on piercings and tattoos: FWC
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Vic ALP in union-friendly election promise blitz
The Victorian Labor opposition has made a number of union-friendly policy announcements ahead of the November 29 state election, including to tear up the Coalition government's building and construction code and to review the referral of IR powers to the Commonwealth. The Vic ALP election platform includes a promise to abolish the Coalition's code ...
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TURC must stay out of union election: HSU
The Health Services Union (HSU) has warned the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) making findings about alleged criminal false declarations relating to right of entry (RoE) tests before a court challenge was finalised would advantage opponents of Victoria No 1 branch secretary Diana Asmar in the union's election. In March, Fair Work Commission (FW...
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Stoljar's broad approach to fiduciary duty ‘inappropriate': Melhem
The Trade Union Royal Commission counsel assisting is seeking to broadly impose fiduciary duties on union officials in a way that would effectively prevent them from fundraising for any interest other than the union, state Labor MP and former Australian Workers Union (AWU) Victoria secretary Cesar Melhem has argued. Counsel assisting Jeremy Stoljar...
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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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ACCC takes CFMEU to court over alleged Boral secondary boycott
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instituted Federal Court proceedings against the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) alleging it engaged or attempted to engage in a secondary boycott against Boral. However, the competition watchdog rejected claims Boral clients engaged in “cartel conduct” in r...
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Unions question govt reassurance on China labour deal
Unions have questioned Federal Government assurances that the China-Australia free trade agreement (ChAFTA) will contain safeguards including labour market testing for migrant workers and a requirement they be paid at Australian rates. ChAFTA permits temporary migrant workers to be employed on development projects worth more than $150m under Invest...
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Employer goes to direct ballot after locking out workers for a month
Otis Lifts will bypass unions and go direct to its mechanics and electricians with its latest enterprise agreement (EA) offer, in an attempt to end a standoff that has seen 150 Victorian workers locked out for four weeks after taking protected industrial action. Otis Lifts did not respond to Workforce Daily 's calls on pressday. However, Electrical...
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Ex-mining union boss faces prosecution: ICAC
Ex-Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland is being prosecuted as an accessory to allegedly corrupt conduct over his role in securing the Doyles Creek exploration mine that netted him about $15m. Last year, the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) found Maitland as chairman of Doyles Creek ...
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Tug boat engineers to meet with Teekay in attempt to head off strike
Western Australia's Port Hedland tug boat engineers will meet with Teekay Shipping tomorrow morning (November 21) in an attempt to head off industrial action that could shut Australia's major minerals export port. Workers represented by the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (AIMPE) this week gave notice to strike for four hours on ...
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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. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Posties proposed to merge with sparkies
The national Communications Workers Union (CWU) is resisting changes to union rules demanded by some of its state branches that could see them move across to their electrical division counterparts. Such a result could potentially undermine the national CWU as the postal and telecommunication branch of the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (C...
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Vic ALP in union-friendly election promise blitz
The Victorian Labor opposition has made a number of union-friendly policy announcements ahead of the November 29 state election, including to tear up the Coalition government's building and construction code and to review the referral of IR powers to the Commonwealth. The Vic ALP election platform includes a promise to abolish the Coalition's code ...
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High Court's Barker leaves more questions than answers
WFD: Senior IR practitioners have criticised the High Court's recent ruling against the implied term of mutual trust and confidence, describing it as “impoverished” on important questions of principle and failing to consider common law jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom. In a discussion at last week's Australian Labour Law Associa...
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Unions question govt reassurance on China labour deal
WFD: Unions have questioned Federal Government assurances that the China-Australia free trade agreement (ChAFTA) will contain safeguards including labour market testing for migrant workers and a requirement they be paid at Australian rates. ChAFTA permits temporary migrant workers to be employed on development projects worth more than $150m under I...
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Judge takes broad view of ‘political opinion' in adverse action claim
WFD: A university philosophy professor's siding with the analytical over the continental tradition of philosophy was exercising a political opinion protected from adverse action, the Federal Circuit Court has held. However, the court dismissed the academic's claims the University of Sydney's retrenchment of him was because of that opinion. It also ...
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Overwhelming vote for strikes at DHS
WFD: Workers at the Department of Human Services (DHS) have overwhelmingly voted to approve industrial action, with 95% voting in favour of actions in what was Australia's largest ever electronic ballot. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) announced DHS workers, including those at agencies Centrelink and Medicare and child support workers,...
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MUA strikes at Farstad Shipping after FWC all-clear
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) on November 17 rejected Farstad Shipping's bid to stop the Maritime Union of Australia's (MUA) protected industrial action, resulting in almost 300 maritime workers going on strike from 4am, Nov 18. The MUA had given notice it intended to take four consecutive 24-hour strikes from 4am Saturday (November 15) ( WF ...
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ACCC takes CFMEU to court over alleged Boral secondary boycott
WFD: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instituted Federal Court proceedings against the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) alleging it engaged or attempted to engage in a secondary boycott against Boral. However, the competition watchdog rejected claims Boral clients engaged in “cartel conduct”...
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Ex-mining union boss faces prosecution: ICAC
WFD: Ex-Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland is being prosecuted as an accessory to allegedly corrupt conduct over his role in securing the Doyles Creek exploration mine that netted him about $15m. Last year, the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) found Maitland as chairman of Doyles C...
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