Qld construction union boss Michael Ravbar has admitted he read the Trade Union Royal Commission's notice to produce the day after he ordered document destruction and while the documents were still to be destroyed. However, he says he was not worried about halting the destruction process because he was “very comfortable” the documents t...
Ravbar denies reading TURC notice on day of document destruction
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Shipping news: AIMPE turns on MUA; Bill facing defeat
The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (AIMPE) has accused the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) of cutting a deal that cost its members their jobs in its submission to a Senate inquiry into Flag of Convenience (FOC) shipping. Meanwhile, the Coalition's contentious bill exempting foreign ships from award pay and conditions is facing...
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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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Scrap FWC and start again: ex DP Brendan McCarthy
WFD: 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 Wednesday's Productivity Commission (PC) workplace relations hearing...
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Cash in, Abetz off: employment ministry caught in reshuffle
WFD: 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 Sunday's (Sept 20) cabinet reshuffle, Cash replaces Liberal leader in the Senate Eric Abetz as employment minister and also minist...
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Adlawgroup backs down on $22k fee-for-job program
WFD: 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...
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Drug testing now part of building code
WFD: 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 bui...
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FWC orders $33k compo for sacked salesperson
WFD: 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 exer...
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Failure to consult cancer patient made redundancy not genuine
WFD: 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...
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Exec wins $3m+ payout for termination of fixed term contract
WFD: 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'...
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Ravbar denies reading TURC notice on day of document destruction
WFD: Qld construction union boss Michael Ravbar has admitted he read the Trade Union Royal Commission's notice to produce the day after he ordered document destruction and while the documents were still to be destroyed. However, he says he was not worried about halting the destruction process because he was “very comfortable” that the d...
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CFMEU national office knew of Qld doc destruction claims: Hanna
WFD: 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 on Tuesday (September 22), Hanna reversed ...
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Document destruction just a clean up: CFMEU staff
WFD: 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 R...
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CFMEU Qld boss ordered destruction of documents: Hanna
WFD: 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 on Monday afterno...
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$100k of free work to my house ‘just my lucky day': BLF boss
WFD: 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 on Monday (September 21), Hanna told the Trade Unio...
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Diary
The Fifth Annual Ron McCallum Debate: October 6. Swissotel Blaxland Ballroom, Market St, Sydney. Debate on freedom to associate features Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, TCFUA national secretary Michele O'Neil and AiG national IR director Stephen Smith. More info here . IR Society of NSW Practitioners' Day : October 16. K&L Gates, Sydney. More ...
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No need for more Jackson hearings, TURC goes straight to submissions
WFD: 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 on Wednesday (Sept 23), Commissioner Dyson Heydon will address the allegations agai...
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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product Code : 314021719805. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Labour academics take issue with PC assumptions
Leading labour law academics have joined to oppose Productivity Commission draft recommendations to restrict compensation in unfair dismissal and general protections claims, lower the bar to stop protected action and restructure the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for awards. The joint reply submission to the PC's workplace relations draft report by Uni...
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Ballot error doesn't make industrial action invalid: FWC
An Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) mistake in allowing workers an extra 10 days to vote in a protected action ballot was technical only and didn't invalidate the process or the result, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. Rejecting Broadcast Transmission Services Pty Ltd's bid for an order preventing industrial action by AMWU members at its si...
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