Ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW boss Derrick Belan has been excused from giving evidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) today but is expected to face questions next week over thousands of dollars of union money spent on personal items, including hundreds of dollars for a tattoo and a skydiving course. Statements tabled in TURC ye...
Skydiving, laser clinic, tattoo paid on NUW NSW sec union credit card
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Offshore strike averted; MUA urges ‘no' vote on WA offer
Unions representing workers constructing the 889km pipeline for the offshore WA Icthys LNG project have called off industrial action planned for tomorrow and their employer dropped a Federal Court case listed for today. Fair Work Commissioner Danny Cloghan yesterday afternoon brokered a deal in the bargaining dispute between Skilled Offshore Pty Lt...
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Editorial Team
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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Past employees' conduct relevant to bullying orders: FWC
The Fair Work Commission has held a past employee's “unreasonable behaviour” can be relevant to whether an alleged victim has been bullied, but has flagged it will deny a stop bullying order to a waitress found to have been bullied because the abusive chef had left the restaurant so she may no longer be at risk. The case highlighted tha...
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CFMEU SA comes in from the cold, affiliates with Labor
WFD: 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 for the...
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Telstra EA challenged over votes from individual agreement workers
WFD: 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...
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Sacking man for $22k phone bill was fair: FWC
WFD: 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 con...
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Speeding train driver gets backpay and job back after ‘harsh' dismissal
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has reinstated and ordered 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 relied on...
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Adverse action by mistaken belief not unlawful: Full Court
WFD: 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 ...
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Offshore strike averted; MUA urges ‘no' vote on WA offer
WFD: Unions representing workers constructing the 889km pipeline for the offshore WA Icthys LNG project have called off industrial action planned for tomorrow and their employer dropped a Federal Court case listed for Thursday. Fair Work Commissioner Danny Cloghan on Wednesday afternoon brokered a deal in the bargaining dispute between Skilled Offs...
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Border Force stands down workers over bans
WFD: 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 t...
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Past employees' conduct relevant to bullying orders: FWC
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has held a past employee's "unreasonable behaviour" can be relevant to whether an alleged victim has been bullied, but has flagged it will deny a stop bullying order to a waitress found to have been bullied because the abusive chef had left the restaurant and so she may no longer be at risk. The case highlighted that n...
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Judge puts personal penalty for CFMEU official in ‘too hard basket'
WFD: 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 t...
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Redundancy of unionist was unlawful adverse action: court
WFD: 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 ...
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Skydiving, laser clinic, tattoo paid on NUW NSW sec union credit card
WFD: Ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW boss Derrick Belan has been excused from giving evidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) on Thursday but is expected to face questions next week over thousands of dollars of union money spent on personal items, including hundreds of dollars for a tattoo and a skydiving course. Statements tabled...
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TURC reveals Belan family spent big using NUW members' money
WFD: 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 on Wednesday heard that Belan's union credit cards paid for tens of thousands of dollars in personal sp...
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Correction
On Tuesday (November 3) Workforce said the back pay ordered by Deputy President Peter Sams in White v Asciano Services Pty Ltd t/as Pacific National [2015] FWC 7466 was “about $25k”. In fact, the $25k figure was the discount to the compensation due to the employee's breach of safety policies. The amount of back pay ordered was 30% of th...
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SBS sacking over tweets before policy breach finding: journo
Former SBS sports journalist Scott McIntyre has claimed the broadcaster sacked him over ‘offensive' tweets about Australian ANZACs without issuing a direction to remove the tweets and before making a finding he breached his employer's policies. The allegations are contained in McIntyre's statement of claim in his Federal Court unlawful termin...
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Diary
CEDA annual dinner address 'Australia's economic reform challenge' : November 17, 6.00pm to 9.00pm. Sofitel Hotel, Sydney. Speaker is the Hon. John Howard. More info here. Third Biennial Labour Law Conference of the NZ Labour Law Society : November 27. Victoria University, Wellington. Keynote speakers include Dr Virginia Mantouvalou on 'Human Right...
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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 : 314021719865. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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