More women hold office at the top of unions than ever before but women are still short of equal representation, holding just 40% of senior positions, according to a report. University of Sydney Associate Professor Dr Rae Cooper presented a summary of her report into women in unions to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress today (Ma...
Unions lack equal representation of women at top: report
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Stress symptoms not enough for discrimination in adverse action law
The Federal Court has held the meaning of discrimination under adverse action laws is narrower than under anti-discrimination laws, in a decision that found a traumatised train driver's symptoms of stress were not enough to show he had been fired because of his mental illness. Justice Melissa Perry partly allowed RailPro's appeal of Judge Denys Sim...
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Stress symptoms not enough for discrimination in adverse action law
The Federal Court has held the meaning of discrimination under adverse action laws is narrower than under anti-discrimination laws, in a decision that found a traumatised train driver's symptoms of stress were not enough to show he had been fired because of his mental illness. Justice Melissa Perry partly allowed RailPro's appeal of Judge Denys Sim...
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ACTU adds two vice presidents
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress has changed the peak body's rules to increase the number of vice presidents (VPs) from five to seven. The VPs will be elected at the next ACTU executive meeting. Former Australian Services Union NSW secretary Sally McManus is expected to win one VP position, after moving to the ACTU to take on ...
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Bullying orders no way to dispute operational practices: FWC
Disputes about compliance with work health and safety laws and “operational practices” were not “bullying conduct” which could be dealt with by a stop-bullying application, the Fair Work Commission has found. Andrew Gilbert was accused of bullying by St John's Ambulance WA Ltd volunteer paramedics. St John's, his employer, s...
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Canterbury Windows locks out 50 workers over pay dispute
About 50 manufacturing workers were protesting outside Canterbury Windows South Melbourne factory at presstime (May 28), after they were locked out over a pay dispute. The workers are seeking a 4% a year pay increase over three years, with the company offering 1%, 2% and 2%. The dispute came to a head yesterday after the union withdrew a threatened...
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Full bench overturns cap on contracts at Essential Energy
Essential Energy has successfully appealed a Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision limiting its ability to place senior and higher paid employees on individual contracts. On appeal, Essential Energy successfully argued coverage under clause 1.3 of the company's enterprise agreement (EA) was determined solely by whether an employee's base weekly rate ...
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AWU undercut award for $25k fee, inflated membership: TURC
Casual cleaners at a Spotless subsidiary were short-changed by up to two thirds of their hourly rate by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) Victoria branch maintaining an expired WorkChoices agreement that saved their employer millions of dollars a year in wages. The AWU agreed to maintain the 2006 enterprise agreement past its 2010 expiry date in r...
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ACTU adds two vice presidents
WFD: The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress has changed the peak body's rules to increase the number of vice presidents (VPs) from five to seven. The VPs will be elected at the next ACTU executive meeting. Former Australian Services Union NSW secretary Sally McManus is expected to win one VP position, after moving to the ACTU to tak...
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Unions lack equal representation of women at top: report
WFD: More women hold office at the top of unions than ever before but women are still short of equal representation, holding just 40% of senior positions, according to a report. University of Sydney Associate Professor Dr Rae Cooper presented a summary of her report into women in unions to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress on M...
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Oliver unveils social wage wishlist
WFD: Improvements to the social wage such as health, education and retirement incomes will be at the centre of the Australian Council of Trade Union's (ACTU) political campaign, secretary Dave Oliver has revealed. In an interview with Workforce Daily , Oliver said the main focus of its triennial Congress this week will be achieving endorsement of t...
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Australia must get ahead of automation curve: Shorten
WFD: Australia needs to prepare for the jobs of the future as it confronts the risk of automation of low-wage sectors, opposition leader Bill Shorten has said. Shorten made the comments in an address to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress on May 27. He criticised the view that high wages made Australia less competitive, and warne...
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Lambie makes new push for ‘explosive' secret TURC report
WFD: Senator Jacqui Lambie has written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) Commissioner Dyson Heydon demanding to see the confidential third volume of the TURC interim report, which she has described as one of the most “explosive” documents in Australian history. The new push comes despite Cmr Heydon's ...
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Subcontractor hit with $300k for hiding behind labour hire firms
WFD: A construction company that used labour hire companies to distance itself from its workplace obligations and entered into agreements to keep the construction union “at bay” has been ordered to pay almost $300k for breaches over underpayments and record-keeping. The Federal Court penalty ruling - the first to be made after a full co...
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Canterbury Windows locks out 50 workers over pay dispute
WFD: About 50 manufacturing workers were protesting outside Canterbury Windows South Melbourne factory on May 28, after they were locked out over a pay dispute. The workers are seeking a 4% a year pay increase over three years, with the company offering 1%, 2% and 2%. The dispute came to a head on May 27 after the union withdrew a threatened eight-...
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Bullying orders no way to dispute operational practices: FWC
WFD: Disputes about compliance with work health and safety laws and “operational practices” were not “bullying conduct” which could be dealt with by a stop-bullying application, the Fair Work Commission has found. Andrew Gilbert was accused of bullying by St John's Ambulance WA Ltd volunteer paramedics. St John's, his employ...
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Disciplinary ambush not reasonable management action: FWC
WFD: An employer springing a disciplinary meeting on an employee was a “threatening” rather than a reasonable management action, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found -but it refused the stop-bullying application. Despite the ambush, FWC refused an order because the employer dealt with the probationary employee fairly after the incid...
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Qld opposition claims ‘privacy' flaw in union encouragement clause
WFD: The Qld opposition has questioned the legality of Government plans to provide public sector employees' contact details to unions under its new union encouragement policy. ThePalaszczuk govt has approved a union encouragement policy which: allows “employees full access to union delegates/officials during working hours to discuss any emplo...
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Compensation is not a punitive measure: bench
WFD: Compensation in unfair dismissal cases is not a punishment for an employer's poor practices, a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has ruled in upholding a refusal to award a unfairly dismissed worker any compensation. The bench upheld Commissioner Chris Simpson's decision last year that found labour hire company Matilda Greenbank - which di...
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