The union's precedent-setting agreement on a 23:10 roster at the Gorgon Gas project has maintained the pay increases and conditions that were attached to previously rejected roster offers, a Fair Work Commission statement has revealed (WF 4/9/15). The agreement - which Commissioner Danny Cloghan said was not presented on a “take it or leave...
Gorgon workers don't miss out on pay and conditions with 23:10 roster
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Depression justifies late unfair dismissal claim: FWC
A worker who submitted an unfair dismissal application just 58 minutes late was entitled to an extension of time because her depression was an “exceptional circumstance”, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held. Deputy President Val Gostencnik accepted medical evidence that the applicant would have been affected in preparing and lodging...
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Cbus CEO likely authorised leak to union: Stoljar
The head of industry superannuation fund Cbus likely knew and participated in the leak of members' private information to the construction union, the Trade Union Royal Commission senior counsel assisting has concluded. In submissions released yesterday for TURC's final report, Jeremy Stoljar SC conceded that in the face of Cbus CEO David Atkin's de...
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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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SDA invokes 7-Eleven scandal to oppose enterprise contracts
The Shop Distributive & Allied Employees' Association (SDA) has said the 7-Eleven underpayments scandal demonstrates the ineffectiveness of safeguards against worker exploitation, including safeguards in proposed enterprise contracts (ECs). SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer made the comments in Melbourne today (September 8) at the Productivit...
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Employers need more ability to walk away from EAs: Ai Group
Employers should have increased ability to exit enterprise agreements (EAs) early when economic circumstances change and to terminate expired agreements, the Australian Industry Group (AiG) has said. AiG workplace relations policy head Stephen Smith made the comments in Melbourne today (September 8) at the Productivity Commission's (PC) public hear...
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Australia asleep at wheel on right to strike: Giudice
Although it is “highly undesirable” that Australia might be in breach of its international right to strike obligations there is little political impetus to roll back restrictions on it, former Fair Work Australia president Justice Geoff Giudice has said. Giudice made the comments in a paper on the right to strike in Australia to be pres...
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End of supply contracts no excuse not to pay redundancy: FWC
The end of a supply contract does not automatically equate to an “ordinary and customary turnover of labour” which can justify refusing redundancy entitlements, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held. Commissioner Julius Roe clarified the cmn will consider how closely tied a workers' employment is to a particular supply contract and ma...
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Refusal to pay wages does not result in constructive dismissal
Non-payment of wages is not enough to establish that an employee was forced to resign and so entitled to claim unfair dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. Commissioner David Gregory held that centre manager Darren Vigfusson “overreacted” by quitting his job after Skycorp Investments Pty Ltd t/a Coventry Village failed to pay h...
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Senate motion to oust Heydon fails
Labor has lost in its bid to ask the Governor General (GG) to remove Dyson Heydon as head of the Trade Union Royal Commission due to apprehended bias (WF 4/9/15). The Senate's September 8 vote for Labor's motion resulted in a 34-34 tie, meaning it failed to pass. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon said he had “very serious concerns about the w...
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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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FSU exec push to put new secretary on trial
Exclusive: The Finance Sector Union (FSU) national executive will meet on Friday (September 11) to decide whether national secretary Fiona Jordan has breached the union rules by refusing to implement a resolution to let a “hostile” majority of the executive draw up alternative budget plans, Workforce Daily can reveal. The move follows a...
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Another APS deal goes down, new round of industrial action begins
Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) employees are the latest in the Commonwealth public sector to emphatically reject their employer's pay offer, as several more agencies prepare to put their deals to a vote and the CPSU plans further industrial action in what is set to be a critical period in the protracted bargaining round. In a ballot declared...
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Adding soccer stars to sports award could double Matildas' pay
As the collective bargaining dispute between the Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) and Football Federation Australia (FFA) heats up with the Matildas withdrawing from a tour of the US, the PFA has sought award coverage in a move that would close the gender pay gap by more than doubling the base rate of pay for the Matildas. On August 20 the ...
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FSU secretary hits back, says exec orders impermissible
Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan has hit out at critics on her hostile national executive, arguing a resolution they accuse her of breaching itself breached union rules and its enterprise agreement (EA) with staff. Yesterday, Jordan wrote an extraordinary email to the union's 28,000 members saying she had been “delib...
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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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‘Scurrilous' gossip counts as bullying: FWC
Gossip and “scurrilous denigration of a worker” would all fall within the definition of bullying in the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) new jurisdiction, the cmn has said. Commissioner Danny Cloghan made the comment in a decision refusing to grant stop-bullying orders to a woman who fell out with her friend and neighbour resulting in alleg...
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‘Flexible' business model means not ok to cut contractors to redeploy
A senior Fair Work Commission member has held that it would not be reasonable to remove labour hire workers and redeploy redundant employees into those positions if it meant a company would lose flexibility and risk major operational difficulties (WF 17/4/15) . The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) mining division had sought to have...
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FSU exec push to put new secretary on trial
Exclusive WFD: The Finance Sector Union (FSU) national executive will meet on Friday (September 11) to decide whether national secretary Fiona Jordan has breached the union rules by refusing to implement a resolution to let a “hostile” majority of the executive draw up alternative budget plans, Workforce Daily can reveal. The move follo...
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SDA invokes 7-Eleven scandal to oppose enterprise contracts
WFD: The Shop Distributive & Allied Employees' Association (SDA) has said the 7-Eleven underpayments scandal demonstrates the ineffectiveness of safeguards against worker exploitation, including safeguards in proposed enterprise contracts (ECs). SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer made the comments in Melbourne on September 8 at the Productivit...
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