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Cash in, Abetz off: employment ministry caught in reshuffle

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Former employment lawyer and assistant immigration minister Senator Michaelia Cash has been promoted to Cabinet and given the portfolios of employment and women in the Turnbull government. Awarded the portfolios in yesterday's cabinet reshuffle, Cash replaces Liberal leader in the Senate Eric Abetz as employment minister and also minister assisting...

Drug testing now part of building code

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The Federal Government has introduced “zero level tolerance” drug and alcohol testing requirements into the building code. Former employment minister Senator Eric Abetz introduced the amendments last week using powers under s27 of the Fair Work (Building Industry) Act 2012. The changes modelled under the former Vic Government's building...

Failure to consult cancer patient made redundancy not genuine

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An airline's making of a marketing manager role redundant was not genuine because it did not consult her about a restructure while she was on leave being treated for cancer. Fair Work Commission Deputy President Peter Sams also held the “extraordinary stress” from a life-threatening illness justified a delay of 48 days in filing an unfa...

$100k of free work to my house ‘just my lucky day': BLF boss

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Ex-Builder Labourers Federation (BLF) Qld boss Dave Hanna has denied he arranged for Mirvac to provide $100k of free work to his house and claimed its project manager helped him “out of the kindness of his heart” and because “he's a good bloke”. Delivering his evidence this morning, Hanna told the Trade Union Royal Commissio...

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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

CFMEU Qld boss ordered destruction of documents: Hanna

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Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Qld secretary Michael Ravbar ordered the destruction of several tonnes of union documents after the Trade Union Royal Commission issued its first notices to produce, former Builders Labourers Federation boss Dave Hanna has said. As the cmn began its second CFMEU Qld case study this afternoon, Hanna ...

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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

CFMEU national office knew of Qld doc destruction claims: Hanna

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The head of the national Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) was told the union's Qld branch had destroyed documents while under a notice to produce from the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC), ex-CFMEU Qld and national president Dave Hanna has claimed. In extraordinary evidence at TURC this morning, Hanna reversed his denials from y...

Ai Group asks Turnbull govt to jump-start IR reform

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Australian Industry Group (AiG) has urged the Turnbull government to take up the mantle of IR reform by intervening in the four-yearly modern award review, immediately banning clauses that prohibit use of contractors, and seeking a broader mandate at the next election. AiG chief executive Innes Willox made the call in a speech to the Brisbane Club ...

Immigration workers' emphatic ‘No' vote on dept offer

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Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) workers have emphatically rejected the dept's proposed enterprise agreement, with 91% voting against it. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) announced almost 82% of staff voted in the ballot, with more than 10,000 voting against the proposed agreement. CPSU national secretary Nadine Fl...

FWC orders $33k compo for sacked salesperson

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A salesperson with no ability to delegate his duties was not a contractor but an employee who was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has held before awarding the man $33k compensation. The case highlights the fact that a salesperson working entirely on commission and who charges GST may nevertheless be an employee if the company exercises...

Adlawgroup backs down on $22k fee-for-job program

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Start-up law firm Adlawgroup has shelved a plan to charge junior lawyers $22k for jobs after the SA Law Society wrote to it expressing concern the program was exploitative and may not meet professional rules. In June Adlawgroup, an initiative of two WBH Legal partners, proposed a program in which junior solicitors would pay $22k for a two-year full...

Document destruction just a clean up: CFMEU staff

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Construction union staffers have confirmed Qld secretary Michael Ravbar ordered them to destroy documents only an hour after the Trade Union Royal Commission served the national office with a notice to produce but have denied knowing of the notice at the time. This week, ex-Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) Qld secretary Dave Hanna claimed Ravbar...

Exec wins $3m+ payout for termination of fixed term contract

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The Federal Court has awarded a senior executive more than $3m in compensation because his employer terminated his five year fixed-term contract without cause and failed to reimburse a temporary pay cut he had taken during the GFC. The case demonstrates the danger of summary dismissal, as the enormous damages bill was triggered by the company's dec...

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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

No need for more Jackson hearings, TURC goes straight to submissions

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The Trade Union Royal Commission has called on parties to make submissions by next week on disgraced former Health Services Union (HSU) leaders Kathy Jackson and Craig Thomson, now that their court cases have concluded. According to Practice Direction 10 issued today, Commissioner Dyson Heydon will address the allegations against Jackson and Thomso...

Document destruction just a clean up: CFMEU staff

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Construction union staffers have confirmed Qld secretary Michael Ravbar ordered them to destroy documents only an hour after the Trade Union Royal Commission served the national office with a notice to produce but have denied knowing of the notice at the time. This week, ex-Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) Qld secretary Dave Hanna claimed Ravbar...

Scrap FWC and start again: ex DP Brendan McCarthy

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Former Fair Work Commission (FWC) Deputy President Brendan McCarthy has argued against creating a new minimum standards division within the cmn and instead proposed creating an entirely separate institution with no guarantee FWC members would be appointed to it. McCarthy told yesterday's Productivity Commission (PC) workplace relations hearing that...

Abolish union right-of-entry: ex DP McCarthy

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Union leaders have no more right to access work sites for the purpose of recruitment than insurance salespeople or bank representatives, former Fair Work Commission (FWC) Deputy President Brendan McCarthy has argued, calling on the Productivity Commission to abolish union right-of-entry (RoE) rights. McCarthy made the call in yesterday's hearings f...

Lesbian innuendo, Facebook snubs are bullying: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has held a pattern of office snubs and innuendo suggesting a lesbian relationship were bullying, and has said Facebook de-friending was also indicative of such unreasonable behaviour. Real estate agent Rachael Roberts sought the orders against her employer View Launceston, its co-director James Bird and his wife, sales admi...
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