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FIFO flights on work time no fringe benefit: bench

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WFD : Companies that pay for flights for fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers are not liable for fringe benefits tax where the long-haul commute is part of paid work time, the Full Federal Court has held. The result could mean employer-paid flights will not count as a fringe benefit when calculating the unfair dismissal high income threshold, where the tr...

Workers forced to resign by TWU-Toll deal were unfairly dismissed

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WFD : The Fair Work Commission has held that the Transport Workers Union (TWU) struck a deal with Toll Ipec Pty Ltd to have three workers accused of theft resign instead of being fired, but without the knowledge of the workers. Ruling the workers were in fact unfairly dismissed, Commissioner John Lewin found Toll had agreed to the union's resignati...

Court orders CFMEU Qld stop ‘picket' over shopfitters

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WFD : The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has been ordered not to stop work or picket a project in Broadbeach, Qld, after evidence the union had blocked access for the last month in an alleged attempt to coerce the builder to enter into an enterprise agreement (EA). Built Qld Pty Ltd successfully sought the interim orders to stop ...

Woolworths to axe 1,200 jobs

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WFD : Woolworths is expecting to cut a total of 1,200 jobs in response to disappointing sales results, announcing a further 800 job cuts following the 400 revealed last month. The job cuts will occur “across support functions, supply chain and non-customer facing store positions” and will cost an estimated $40-50m, including redundancie...

Ex-TWU WA leaders breached laws in $600k redundancy scam: Stoljar

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WFD : Former Transport Workers Union (TWU) WA branch secretaries James McGiveron and Rick Burton engineered rule changes which resulted in them receiving termination packages costing the union more than $600k, counsel assisting the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) has concluded. On June 16 Jeremy Stoljar SC submitted to Commissioner Dyson Heydon...

Vic prepares way for portable long service leave

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WFD : The Vic Government has called for submissions in its parliamentary inquiry into portable long service leave (LSL) entitlements for the state's workers. The Andrews govt announced the inquiry on May 6 and said it would “examine portable leave, which allows workers to carry their LSL entitlements over from employer to employer, and how it...

Parker talked with Cbus CEO about TURC evidence

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WFD : NSW construction union leader Brian Parker has rejected claims he sought to intimidate Cbus employees ahead of the Trade Union Royal Commission hearings last year, but has admitted to discussing his evidence with the super fund's CEO. TURC senior counsel Sarah McNaughton this morning grilled Parker over former-Cbus senior employee Maria Buter...

Parker intimidated me to cover-up source of leak: Cbus exec

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WFD : A senior Cbus employee has told the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) that Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) NSW secretary Brian Parker intimidated her in May 2014 to cover-up the source of leaked Liscon members' information. Former Cbus executive manager Maria Butera told a private hearing in December that Parker intimidate...

Diary

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Australian Workplace Relations Study conference, Fair Work Commission : June 25-26, at University of Melbourne. More info here . ALP national conference : July 24-26, Melbourne. More info here . Australian Mines and Metals Association : August 6-7, at Pan Pacific, Perth. Speakers include Stuart Wood QC, Kate Carnell and Senator Zhenya Wang. More in...

Esso to return to bargaining table after workers reject offer

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Esso will return to the enterprise bargaining table next week, after its direct offer to onshore and offshore workers in Victoria was overwhelmingly rejected on Monday (June 15). Australian Workers Union (AWU) Victoria secretary Ben Davis told Workforce 90% of the 500 workers rejected the offer. Esso and the unions have been at loggerheads for nine...

Editorial Team

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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. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Rise of machines will cull 40% of Aussie jobs: report

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WFD : More than five million jobs, almost 40% of Australian jobs, have a “moderate to high likelihood of disappearing in the next 10 to 15 years due to technological advancements”, according to a new report. The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has made the prediction in its report Australia's future workforce rele...

Court removes roadblock to comms ‘takeover' by electrical division

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The Federal Court has removed a roadblock to what a defiant group of national council members call a ‘hostile takeover' of the communications division of the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) by the electrical division. Yesterday (June 18) Justice Richard Tracey ordered six national council members from the communications divisi...

Parker survived bid to ‘roll him' in union last year, TURC hears

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Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) NSW officials “tried to roll” boss Brian ‘Sparkles' Parker last year following revelations about his connections with construction companies belonging to underworld figure George Alex, according to intercepted calls in the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC). The TURC detailed a wi...

Shorten to explain AWU payments

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Opposition leader Bill Shorten will appear before the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) on July 8, after he requested an early appearance to deal with allegations the Australian Workers Union (AWU) received hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies during his time as Vic and national secretary. Shorten was AWU Vic branch secretary from1997 ...

Volunteer an employee as FWC uncovers WorkCover ‘scam'

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A worker's alleged complicity in a WorkCover scam could be exposed if he continued with his unfair dismissal claim, Fair Work Australia has cautioned. Senior Deputy President Matthew O'Callaghan listed the unfair dismissal matter for conference after tossing out preliminary argument by non-profit charity group National Aboriginal Solutions (NAS) th...

TURC probes George Alex flush funds

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Underworld figure George Alex directed a construction union organiser to what appeared to be a drop point for cash - his house's toilet, text messages at the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) have revealed. However, Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) organiser Darren Greenfield has strongly denied picking up money from the toilet a...

Toll sacking for racist comment in ‘toxic' workplace was unfair: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered Toll Holdings to reinstate a worker despite finding he made a racist remark to a colleague. Commissioner Bernie Riordan found Toll treated the incident inconsistently and unfairly given the context of a toxic work environment with allegations of racist remarks on both sides of a divided workforce at its Er...

Greenfield ‘fuming' after discovering Alex cash in folder

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Construction union organiser Darren Greenfield has today told the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) that when he discovered a document folder given to him by a representative of George Alex's company had also contained money, he threw the folder at Alex in a rage. Greenfield said that on September 26, 2013, he met Elite Access Scaffolding manager...

Threat to settle underpayment claim was adverse action

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The Federal Circuit Court has found a Serbian language newspaper and its sole director took adverse action by sacking a journalist who complained about an alleged $90k in underpayments and then threatening him to take $10k to settle the claim or risk not getting “a cent”. Judge Robert Cameron found the company's director was involved in...
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