Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) employees are following up last month's resounding rejection of their employer's enterprise agreement (EA) offer with a 24-hour strike that the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) warns will cause disruption at Australia's eight international airports and other key sites. The union's membe...
CPSU warns of airport disruption from 24-hour DIBP strike
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TURC should not parrot Fed Court findings: Jackson
Disgraced former Health Services Union (HSU) national secretary Kathy Jackson has argued the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) should not adopt adverse Federal Court findings against her because there was “little or no point” now she is already under police investigation. Last month counsel assisting asked TURC to adopt the findings o...
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Telstra EA challenged over votes from individual agreement workers
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has backed Telstra in a hearing to certify the company's proposed enterprise agreement (EA) in an attempt to fight off a challenge that the group was not “fairly chosen” because it included workers on Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs). Last Thursday (November 5) ex-CWU assistant secretary Ken ...
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Sacking man for $22k phone bill was fair: FWC
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has upheld an employer's right to sack a man who racked up a $22k bill for international calls on his work phone because his failure to pay back the sum constituted disobeying a lawful and reasonable direction. However, Deputy President Anne Gooley warned that employees' debts to their employer may not always constitu...
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FWC expands pilot scheme; General protections surge to 10% of claims
Fair Work Commission (FWC) staff rather than tribunal members will now conduct phone conferences for all general protection applications involving dismissal and carry out early assessments on an expanded range of enterprise agreements (EAs), according to the tribunal's President. Justice Iain Ross in the cmn's 2014-15 annual report said the general...
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Mining union's ‘eternal shame': FWC exposes fixed Qld election
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has revoked the Qld mining union's right to conduct its own elections after finding serious rule breaches by senior officials in elections and irregularities that call into question almost 20 years worth of results. The decision has exposed the “debacle” of the Qld branch's 2011 by-election in which the br...
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FWO pushes for injunctions against repeat underpayment offenders
For the third time this year the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has sought a court injunction against an employer, with the latest a chocolate supply chain contractor caught repeatedly underpaying migrant workers. The FWO said Melbourne packing company ACC Services Pty Ltd t/a Rapid Pak - which packs chocolates for Cadbury and Mars - had been underpayin...
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CEPU SA members challenging ALP affiliation in wake of ChAFTA deal
Exclusive Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) SA members are pushing for direct control over their union's affiliation with political parties, with one citing Labor's compromise over the China Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) as “a driving force” behind the change. However, the branch leadership has said the plebiscite as frame...
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CFMEU SA comes in from the cold, affiliates with Labor
Exclusive In a historic move, the construction union's SA branch has decided to affiliate with the Labor party after almost 20 years of independence. Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) SA secretary Aaron Cartledge confirmed to Workforce Daily the branch committee of management had voted in October to re-affiliate after debating it fo...
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Speeding train driver gets $25k and job back after ‘harsh' dismissal
The Fair Work Commission has reinstated and ordered about $25k back-pay for a Pacific National train driver despite finding he travelled up to 18km an hour above the speed limit which constituted a valid reason for dismissal. The cmn held the dismissal was “harsh” due to inconsistent disciplinary treatment, and a finding the company rel...
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Border Force stands down workers over bans
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has blasted Border Force for a “nasty escalation” of their industrial dispute, as the government agency stands down freight workers without pay for instituting work bans. More than 500 CPSU members at ports and other freight areas including those handling cargo, mail and goods were due to tak...
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TURC reveals Belan family spent big using NUW members money
National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW leader Derrick Belan has resigned his position and checked into a psychiatric hospital after explosive allegations of misappropriation of union money before the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC). The cmn this morning heard that Belan's union credit cards paid for tens of thousands of dollars in personal spendin...
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Redundancy of unionist was unlawful adverse action: court
The Federal Court has held a coal mining company breached its enterprise agreement (EA) and took adverse action against a union official after restructure reports revealed the company made no genuine attempt to consider redeployment of three employees. In a rare case of a decision-maker's evidence failing to discharge the burden of proof that adver...
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Judge puts personal penalty for CFMEU official in ‘too hard basket'
The Federal Court has refused a Fair Work Building Construction (FWBC) application for Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) official Joe Myles to personally pay $6k in fines for industrial coercion, saying such an order is “problematic” without some way to ensure it would be effective. Justice Christopher Jessup made the co...
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Adverse action by mistaken belief not unlawful: Full Court
A Full Federal Court majority has upheld the decision of a judge who found a mining company did not take unlawful adverse action against a worker it sacked after he took sick leave because - although the man was actually sick - the real reason for the dismissal was a belief he was acting dishonestly. The case suggests adverse action taken for a rea...
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