The Transport Workers Union's global solidarity visit to Los Angeles to protest Toll Group's treatment of its US-based staff has sparked a jurisdictional dispute in Fair Work Australia over whether the tribunal can decide on conduct that took place overseas. The TWU lodged the dispute under its Toll Australia agreement demanding the company withdra...
FWA looks at jurisdiction over TWU global solidarity actions
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Wage increases remain steady at 4%
Average annualised wage increases (AAWIs) in the December 2011 quarter remained steady at 4%, latest Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations figures reveal. Collective agreements (CAs) achieved a 3.9% increase overall, with private sector CAs leading the way (4.1%) over the public (3.7%). Both increases were improvements on the ...
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Fair Work Review: Report was due to be provided to the Federal Govt yesterday (May 31), but it is likely to be handed next week after the review panel requested an extension. See DEEWR website . NSW Workers Compensation Scheme Committee report : To be tabled in NSW Parliament, June 13. Federal Govt inquiry into fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers: Publi...
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NSW administrator powers still hover over HSU case
WFD: The NSW Government is considering whether to use its powers to unilaterally appoint an administrator to the state branch of the Health Services Union despite the matter having been transferred to the Federal Court ( WF18225 ) . The concern was raised in a Federal Court directions hearing yesterday (May 31) after the NSW Supreme Court last week...
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NSW administrator powers still hover over HSU case
The NSW Government is considering whether to use its powers to unilaterally appoint an administrator to the state branch of the Health Services Union despite the matter having been transferred to the Federal Court ( WF 18225 ) . The concern was raised in a Federal Court directions hearing today after the NSW Supreme Court last week joined the state...
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Min wages up 2.9% after FWA considers economic uncertainty
The Fair Work Australia minimum wage panel has increased minimum award wages by 2.9% after giving “significant” weight to the uncertainty caused by the European debt crisis and economic volatility in some sectors of the Australian economy. The panel upped the national minimum wage from $15.51 an hour to $15.96, or by $17.70 a week to $6...
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Fed Ct rejects NSW CIM's take on Tooheys EA sick leave clause
The Federal Court has rejected NSW Chief Industrial Magistrate Gregory Hart's finding that a discretionary paid sick leave provision in the Tooheys Limited (Auburn Brewery) Enterprise Agreement 2008 was an unlimited entitlement. In September last year, CIM Hart ruled in favour of Tooheys brewery technician Glenn Genellos in finding clause 5.4 of th...
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TWU can represent airport security, if proves has majority support: FWA
In a decision likely to exacerbate demarcation tensions between the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and United Voice, Fair Work Australia has ruled the TWU can represent security guards at Adelaide Airport. United Voice, the union traditionally associated with the security industry, objected to a TWU majority support determination application for 155...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Judge hands down record $294k fine in sham contracting case
The Federal Court has imposed a record $294,460 find against the former operators of a Tasmanian luxury resort for forcing staff including an intellectually disabled laundry worker to enter sham contracting arrangements. Justice Shane Marshall described the scope and scale of offending as "breathtaking" and an "appalling abuse of power". He fined M...
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NSW must come clean on administrator tomorrow: Court
Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Flick has ordered counsel for NSW Minister for Finance and Services Greg Pearce to say by tomorrow morning if the minister still intended to use his powers under the state Act to appoint an interim administrator from Monday (June 11) ) . Justice Flick indicated that he would likely deliver his decision in two weeks, w...
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Shorten inner sanctum rages over claim FW review advice ignored
Workforce Daily understands Workplace Relations minister Bill Shorten's inner sanctum are privately seething over a press release issued by Opposition counterpart Senator Eric Abetz today accusing the minister of "doctoring" the terms of the Fair Work Act review. Abetz suggested Shorten had left out department advice to look at flexibility and how ...
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Monash staff left exposed by no academic descriptors in EA
A Fair Work Australia decision upholding management's right to manage has reinforced the need for academic descriptors in education sector enterprise agreements. Deputy President Gregory Smith made that clear when ruling in favour of Monash University subsidiary Monash College Pty Ltd (Monash) in its dispute with the National Tertiary Education Ind...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Jackson's ‘scandalous' allegations rock HSU hearing
The first full hearing into the proposed administration of the dysfunctional Health Services Union edged into its own dysfunction this morning as the court adjourned following widespread objections to HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson's hundred-page long affidavit that featured “scandalous” allegations, including against Jackson hers...
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Productivity trends up but ABS notes GDP per hour not definitive
Private sector productivity grew 1.2% in the March quarter, the latest ABS national accounts data reveal. The figures show private sector productivity - measured as gross value added per hour worked - increased 3.9% in the 12 months to March 2012. ABS said estimates of GDP per hour worked were commonly interpreted as changes in labour productivity ...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Lawler objects to defamatory allegations in HSU hearing
Fair Work Australia Vice President Michael Lawler intervened into the HSU administration proceedings this morning to object to “highly defamatory” allegations concerning him in affidavits. While not a party to proceedings, Lawler, represented by eminent QC David Rofe, rose today in the second day of hearings indicating any cross examina...
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'Brain damaged' applicant finally gets bench attention but loses
A reconstituted Fair Work Australia (FWA) full bench has upheld the sacking of a "functionally illiterate and brain damaged" gardener after the Federal Court ordered the tribunal to rehear an out-of-time case arising from the employee's mistake in lodging his unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Ombudsman instead of FWA ( WF18145 ) . Bacto Lab...
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'Brain damaged' applicant finally gets bench attention but loses
WFD: A reconstituted Fair Work Australia (FWA) full bench has upheld the sacking of a "functionally illiterate and brain damaged" gardener after the Federal Court ordered the tribunal to rehear an out-of-time case arising from the employee's mistake in lodging his unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) instead of FWA ( WF18145 ) ...
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