WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has overturned a Lend Lease senior management decision to transfer a full-time union delegate and health and safety representative from its Barangaroo project after finding its decision was motivated by the employee's union status. Deputy President Jeff Lawrence questioned Lend Lease managing director Murray Cole...
FWC foils bid to remove CFMEU rep from Barangaroo over ‘safety risk'
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CFMEU takes national action after migrant worker abuse
WFD: The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) is launching a national investigation into a Taiwanese based company that has been employing Chinese and Filipinos on temporary work visas in the NSW South Coast and whose take-home pay was allegedly as little as $4 an hour. Last week, the union discovered 13 Chinese (subclass 400 visas) an...
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SA casual workers can accrue long service leave, court rules
WFD: The SA Court of Appeal has held that a casual worker was entitled to long service leave (LSL) after holding the sporadic nature of his work was exempted when considering continuous service. Justice Tim Stanley ruled harbour worker Desmond Woolford's sporadic work of between 20 to 60 hours a fortnight was still continuous service as per the SA ...
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Welding company to pay up for firing 457 visa union members
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has blasted a Queensland welding company for firing two Filipino visa workers after they requested a union support person in a meeting to discuss misconduct claims, ordering it pay a total $44k in compensation. In two separate unfair dismissal findings involving Hitec Welding Pty Ltd, Deputy President Ingrid Asbu...
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FWC clears path for CFMEU indefinite strike at Boral subsidiary
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has allowed the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) NSW to take an indefinite strike at Boral De Martin & Gasparini (Boral DMG), rejecting claims the union was engaged in pattern bargaining with concrete companies. Now CFMEU NSW secretary Brian Parker has turned the tables on Boral, alleging it ...
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HSU No1 right-of-entry cheating inquiry can continue: court
WFD: The Federal Court has given the green light to a Fair Work Commission (FWC) investigation of the Health Services Union No1 branch (HSU)'s alleged cheating on right-of-entry (RoE) permit tests, in a move which could see the revocation of up to six RoE permits held by the branch's officials. Justice Jonathan Beach on January 29 rejected the unio...
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Factory workers occupy workplace following lockout
WFD: Manufacturing workers have staged a sit-in at International Flavours and Fragrances' Melbourne factory on Jan 27 after the company responded to a ban on overtime and paperwork with an indefinite lock out. Victoria Police were on the scene at presstime, seeking to remove the 50 workers for trespass. The workers represented by the National Union...
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FWC rejects push for longer hours in public service
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has rejected a Federal Government push to extend ordinary working hours in the public service. It did so as it made a modern enterprise award to replace the 1998 public service award. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) said in a statement the decision was “a major blow to the govt's attac...
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Qld ALP promises to restore public sector conditions
WFD: This Saturday's Queensland state election may have a huge impact on public sector workers, with the state Labor opposition's policy promising to restore independent wage setting and conditions stripped away by legislation. Qld Labor's policy promises to “restore fairness for government workers” by returning the power of the Qld Ind...
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Employer fined after pitching bizarre conditions to rectify underpayment
The Federal Circuit Court has slapped a $15,500 fine on a Bendigo restaurant that refused to back pay a casual unless she provided a statement that she had been “kidnapped” and “forced to work against her will”. The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) brought the matter to court after several failed attempts to get Sona Peaks Pty Ltd,...
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‘Association of IR Academics of Australia and NZ conference ‘Pacific Employment Relations': Feb 3-5, Auckland. More info here . ‘Future of Work' conference, NZ Work Research Institute : Feb 9, at AUT University city campus. More info here . Australian Workplace Relations Study conference, Fair Work Commission : June 25-26, at Univ...
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Big business using IFAs to cut wages: report
Use of Individual Flexibility Arrangements (IFAs) has crept up, with big business more likely than other employers to use them to vary workers' wages, according to the largest workplace relations study in 20 years. The Fair Work Commission's Australian Workplace Relations Survey's (AWRS) ‘First Findings' report is the biggest survey of its ki...
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Don't limit time for ‘genuinely trying to reach agreement': bench
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has rejected argument it cannot consider whether a bargaining party has been genuinely trying to reach agreement between the time it made a protected action application and the hearing of that application. Coles Supermarkets appealed Commissioner David Gregory's decision in December 2014 to grant a protected ...
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SDA and UV biggest ALP donors
Unions have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Greens leading up to the recent federal and state elections, with the shoppies union making the largest single contribution at half a million dollars. The Australian Electoral Commission released the details today in its periodic disclosure of contributions...
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Abbott abandons PPL plan in govt reset; backs min wage panel
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has abandoned his Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme and suggested his government will leave minimum wage setting processes unchanged in a major speech to boost the govt's flagging fortunes. Abbott made the comments in his address to the National Press Club today (February 2). Abbott said he supported PPL because it “...
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Child welfare not union activity was cause for sacking: Federal Court
The Federal Court has rejected the adverse action claim of a sacked childcare worker who helped her union meet fellow employees, finding the well-being of children and not her union activity motivated the employer to dismiss her. Justice Christopher Jessup considered the decision-makers' own support of unions in rejecting the application, noting th...
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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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Aust must refer ‘right to strike' impasse to ICJ: ACTU
The Australian Council of Trades Union (ACTU) has called on the Federal Government to publicly support that international labour conventions enshrine the right to strike, amid speculation it wished to depart from the country's long-standing position on the issue. The ACTU made the call in its submission to the senate inquiry currently examining the...
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MUA push for coverage expansion to counter employer tactics
The Maritime Union of Australia's (MUA) controversial bid to broaden the modern award's definition of stevedoring to potentially cover trucking work is set to be heard by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) this week. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has warned such a change is “entirely unwarranted”, ambiguous and threatens to lead to dema...
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