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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: 314021719585. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

NSW Chamber seeks small business award

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The NSW Business Chamber (NSWBC) has applied to the Fair Work Commission for a set of common conditions across all modern awards for 500,000 small businesses with four or fewer employees. NSWBC has released new details of its proposed schedule announced last year, including: part-time employees who agree to work extra hours will not receive overtim...

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NSW IR Society Conference: May 22, Leura. More info here . ACTU Congress : May 26-28, Melbourne. Speakers include Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, Dave Oliver and Ged Kearney. More info here . Committee for Economic Development of Australia : ‘Digital disruption and Australia's future workforce'. June 16, Melbourne. More info here . Australian ...

Qld Govt moves to restore award conditions

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The Qld Government is preparing to legislate to reinstate conditions prohibited from awards under the former Newman govt's ‘award modernisation' process, including by revisiting awards which were made under it. Treasurer and IR minister Curtis Pitt set out the process in a statement yesterday (April 23), which also revealed the govt would und...

Manager sacked for bullying unfairly dismissed: FWC

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A shop manager sacked by text for allegedly bullying staff and taking money out of the till without authorisation has been found to be unfairly dismissed. Fair Work Commissioner Anna Cribb rejected the employer's novel jurisdictional argument that the manager had terminated her own employment by making an earlier unfair dismissal application after ...

Bankrupt ordered to pay $8k in penalties for underpaying workers

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The Federal Court has ordered a bankrupt ship captain to pay a total of $8k in penalties to two underpaid Fijian workers after finding his bankruptcy meant a lower level of penalty would be sufficient as a deterrent. Justice Richard White earlier found Captain Brett Barry Devine was “involved as an accessory” in contraventions by Devine...

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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

Sacking manager for unexplained absences wasn't fair: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held a fast food store manager was unfairly dismissed, despite accepting his employer's evidence he was absent from work without explanation, which the manager did not deny. That was because the employer failed to set out the “precise scope of those absences”, Senior Deputy President Peter Richards sai...

No grounds for domestic violence and family leave clauses: employers

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Peak employer groups have objected to Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU) claims for domestic violence and family friendly work provisions in modern awards, arguing there is no jurisdiction to include them. Arguments included that domestic violence leave requests went beyond “working arrangements” and part-time work requirements fo...

Vic ambos end two-year dispute, vote up pay deal

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Victorian paramedics have ended a two-year bargaining dispute, overwhelmingly approving a pay deal offered by the Andrews Labor government. This follows the ambos' union's high-profile campaign to throw out the first term Napthine govt. Some 98.3% of ambos who voted approved the govt's offer last week, United Voice's Ambulance Employees Australia (...

FWC declines to research min wage impact on jobs

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has declined to commission a study into the impact of minimum wage increases on employment and hours worked, despite flagging it as part of future research to inform annual wage reviews. Employer groups have long argued against min wage increases on grounds they have a detrimental effect on the amount of jobs. However...

Riordan said union didn't need to ok ALP $500k ‘investment': Sinclair

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Electrical Trades Union (ETU) NSW assistant secretary Paul Sinclair has denied his own union's claims that it approved former secretary Bernie Riordan's decision to loan half a million dollars of the union's money to NSW Labor at the time it was transferred on Christmas Eve 2010 ( WF 24/04/2015 ) . The ETU NSW has claimed that the $500k loan - said...

Cmr failed to consider harshness in dismissal of injured worker: bench

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has granted a rare permission to appeal an unfair dismissal ruling after finding the cmn had failed to adequately consider the worker's age, length of service and other factors going to harshness. The bench - Vice President Joe Catanzariti, Senior Deputy President Anne Harrison and Commissioner Geoff Bull - made 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

MEAA questions social media policies after SBS sacking

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The journalists' union has lashed out at “heavy handed retribution” by employers using social media policies to silence their employees in the wake of SBS's decision to sack football reporter Scott McIntyre over controversial tweets. On Anzac Day (April 25), McIntyre posted a series of tweets from his Twitter account, that identifies hi...

Blanket health assessments unreasonable: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held an employer direction to an entire segment of its workforce to attend compulsory medical assessments as part of a risk review program was not lawful and reasonable. That was because the employer failed to show how medical data fulfilled a “genuine need” to reduce injuries, which was the program's ...

ETU pres backs Riordan over loan but at a loss over minutes

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The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) NSW president has given evidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) that the union's half a million dollar loan to the ALP was discussed in an executive meeting in late 2010. However, he said the exec asked no questions about the loan and he had “no understanding” why it was not recorded in the ...

Lack of control puts subsidiaries beyond redeployment reach: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has held a Rio Tinto subsidiary did not unfairly dismiss four workers by making their positions redundant because Rio did not have managerial control to effect redeployment to a subsidiary or associated entity. The decision is significant as it is common in Australia for large resource companies to structure their mining op...

Miner's broken bottle threat ‘unacceptable anywhere': FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has rejected a sacked mine worker's defence that holding a piece of broken glass to the neck of a co-worker who threw a bottle at him was just “boys being boys” on a mine site. Deputy President Anne Gooley said threatening the bottle-thrower with the broken glass was disproportionate, unnecessary and “unac...

FWC enlisted to help in Gorgon gas bargaining as strike ballot looms

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The largest contractor on Chevron's Gorgon gas project is seeking the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) assistance in bargaining as it faces the prospect of workers taking protected action over their claims for a 20:10 roster. Contractor CB&I's bid for FWC to deal with a bargaining dispute, lodged last week, was being heard this morning. The applica...
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