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Question mark over stay of accused drug trafficker's unfair sacking case

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A question mark hangs over an accused drug trafficker's successful application to have his unfair dismissal claim stayed until after his separate criminal matter is heard - after Workforce Daily investigations revealed the criminal charge to which the Fair Work Commission (FWC) referred in its stay ruling was withdrawn by police more than six month...

Denial of leave accrual ‘mean-spirited' but allowed: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held Ambulance Victoria (AV) was entitled to stop annual leave accrual for paramedics off on workers' compensation without notice, but blasted the practice as “mean-spirited” and “well short of best practice workplace relations”. Before the introduction of the Fair Work Act (FW Act) in 2009...

Manager fired for ‘racking up' with junior clerk

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WFD : A used-car sales manager was validly dismissed for offering and snorting a substance said to be cocaine at the workplace with a junior employee, the Fair Work Commission has held. That was despite no medical evidence on what the substance actually was. Stewart Automotive Group (SAG) sales manager Emmanuel Young denied offering or using drugs ...

Denial of leave accrual ‘mean-spirited' but allowed: FWC

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WFD : The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held Ambulance Victoria (AV) was entitled to stop annual leave accrual for paramedics off on workers' compensation without notice, but blasted the practice as “mean-spirited” and “well short of best practice workplace relations”. Before the introduction of the Fair Work Act (FW Act) i...

Abbott backs down on ADF entitlements but not pay

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WFD : Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced the government will restore $17m of entitlements to Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, but warned it will not back down on its 1.5% pay deal. The Government had cut five entitlements as part of the recent ADF pay deal, including extra recreation leave, Christmas leave, driving and food allowance...

Complaining about conduct towards co-worker can be workplace right

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WFD : The Federal Circuit Court (FCC) has refused to grant an extension of time to a worker sacked at the end of his probationary period who claimed his dismissal was adverse action in response to his bullying complaints. However, the court upheld the worker's proposition that complaining about the bullying of a co-worker could be the exercise of a...

Test case on leave entitlements while on w/comp heads to Fed Court

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WFD : Anglican Care has appealed a precedent decision that ruled NSW workers could accrue leave entitlements while receiving workers' compensation (WF 21/11) . The decision is understood to have ramifications for other state jurisdictions where the right to accrue such entitlements is uncertain following the introduction of the Fair Work Act's s130...

‘Ice' drug claims in the Pilbara result in unfair dismissals

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WFD : The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered compensation for two workers dismissed because a fellow employee claimed they bullied him to withdraw cash with a company credit card to buy methamphetamines for them. The cmn found the dismissals unfair because the fellow employee's refusal to give oral evidence meant his claims were untested. Road ...

FW Act done more for deal-making than bargaining: academic

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WFD : Unions have failed to take advantage of Fair Work Act (FW Act) provisions to give them control of collective bargaining, so the Act increasingly facilitates agreement-making driven by employers in which employees have little input, according to a labour law academic. RMIT's Professor Anthony Forsyth made the comments in a lecture on statutory...

Bench clarifies EA interpretation

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WFD : A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has for the first time clarified that the Act Interpretation Act (AI Act) does not apply to interpreting enterprise agreements (EAs), because they are “made” by employers and workers, not by the cmn. The ruling came in a decision rejecting an Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU...

Veterans' Affairs staff approves industrial action

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WFD : Industrial action in the public sector has ramped up with announcement of action at the Department of Human Services (DHS) next week and a second department overwhelmingly approving a ballot for action. On Tuesday (December 2) some 95% of Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members at the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) approved ac...

CFMEU wins High Court reprieve in Boral contempt proceedings

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WFD : The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has won a reprieve further delaying its criminal contempt trial in the Boral dispute until next year, after the High Court granted a stay allowing the union to seek special leave to appeal a discovery order. On October 24, the Victoria Supreme Court of Appeal rejected the CFMEU's appeal ( ...

Could corporate value statements be subject to consumer law?

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WFD : An employment lawyer has suggested workers may be able to use misleading and deceptive conduct protections in Australian consumer law (ACL) to hold employers to account for their corporate value statements. In a paper delivered to the Australian Labour Law Association conference last month, Swaab Attorneys partner Warwick Ryan questioned whet...

Not all shiftworkers entitled to five-week leave: judge

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WFD : In the first court decision on the Fair Work Act's five-week annual leave entitlement for shiftworkers, a Federal Circuit Court judge has held employers are free to classify shiftworkers in a way that means they are not entitled to the National Employment Standards benefit. The FW Act's s 87 (1)(b)(ii) grants an extra week of annual leave to ...

Question mark over stay of accused drug trafficker's unfair sacking case

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WFD : A question mark hangs over an accused drug trafficker's successful application to have his unfair dismissal claim stayed until after his separate criminal matter is heard - after Workforce Daily investigations revealed the criminal charge to which the Fair Work Commission (FWC) referred in its stay ruling was withdrawn by police more than six...

Labour productivity close to 2%

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WFD : Labour productivity has continued to grow towards the end of the year, with a 1.9% trend increase in the 12 months to September. The National Accounts figures released on Wednesday (December 3) reveal gross value added per hour worked in the market sector (a measure of productivity) increased by 0.2% on a trend basis in the Sept quarter, lowe...

Hutchins new Vic IR minister

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WFD: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced his new Cabinet, sworn in on Thursday (December 4). Andrews announced Natalie Hutchins is industrial relations minister, continuing on from her shadow portfolio. Hutchins will also be responsible for local government and Aboriginal affairs. She was an Australian Workers Union organiser. Jacinta Al...

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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: 314021719435. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

GFB order over ‘invalid' claims may breach concession ban

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found the Victoria firefighters' union has a “strong arguable case” that the cmn cannot order the union not to pursue bargaining claims similar to ones the Federal Court found were invalid. Deputy President Val Gostencnik made the remarks in a decision staying DP Greg Smith's bargaining orders involvin...

Labor seeks to address Bargaining Bill concerns in Senate inquiry

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The Fair Work (Bargaining Processes) Bill 2014 has been referred to a Senate committee inquiry, effectively delaying possible passage of the Bill until after March 2015. Labor late yesterday (December 4) referred the Bill to the Education and Employment Legislation Committee, claiming it was “poorly drafted” and “potentially bad p...
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