Former National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan was “not well” and said several times this year he would resign from the union, the branch president has told the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC). Grilled over Belan's severance pay in the face of allegations of misappropriation of funds, NUW NSW president Marilyn Is...
Belan ‘not well', wanted to resign
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AWU, Together shed big numbers in Queensland
The Queensland branch of the Australian Workers Union (AWU) lost more than 6,000 members in the 2014-2015 year, while Together Queensland followed up a bad year in 2013-2014 with another substantial drop. According to state registered organisation data published in the President of the Industrial Court of Queensland's 2014-2015 annual report , tota...
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NUW NSW forked out on $270k for ALP ‘harmony'
The National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW paid $271,000 to ex-NSW Labor MP Paul Gibson to “create harmony” between the union and NSW Labor, the Trade Union Royal Commission has heard. Gibson, a long-time friend of Derrick Belan's father ex-NUW NSW secretary Frank, told the cmn yesterday union secretary Derrick Belan hired him on $8,800a m...
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Boss paid for private eye in NUW NSW leader's domestic
The head of labour hire firm Ashley Services Group (ASG) paid $17k for a private investigator to spy on former-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan's ex-partner, at Belan's request, during custody dispute. The surveillance was paid for last year through accounts of ASG subsidiary Action Workforce and described as a “per...
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Laptop deductions not lawful: Fed Court
The Federal Court has found that the Vic education department deducting around $20m from teachers' salaries to pay for laptops was unlawful because the computers were not a benefit provided as part of a salary package in return for their work. Rather, Justice Mordy Bromberg found the computers were primarily of benefit to the employer, which effect...
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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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Ex-NUW NSW boss took $25k from union safe without telling anyone
Former National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan unilaterally transferred $25k in cash from a union slush fund to his home in the months before his resignation and has not returned the money, the Trade Union Royal Commission has heard. Last Friday, then-NUW NSW assistant secretary, now secretary, Wayne Meaney told the cmn that in ...
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FWC approves Telstra ‘opt in' collective coverage
The Fair Work Commission has approved the Telstra 2015-2018 enterprise agreement (EA), despite an objection from a former Communications Worker Union (CWU) official that the deal should be scrapped because workers on individual agreements were allowed to vote on it. On Thursday (November 5) Vice President Graeme Watson held “the group of empl...
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HR manager acted ‘corruptly' over AWU payment: TURC counsel
A senior HR manager may face possible criminal charges over bogus invoices and secret payments to the Australian Workers Union (AWU) Vic branch as a result of the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) counsel assisting's submissions. Jeremy Stoljar SC submitted to Commissioner Dyson Heydon late Friday night that Thiess John Holland (TJH) and its form...
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Meat employer cops substantial penalty over ‘severe' RoE breach
In a rare right of entry penalty ruling against an employer, the Federal Circuit Court has fined a Qld abattoir $12k after its senior management refused entry to an Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) organiser. Greenmountain Food Processing, which last year was subject to the first decision involving the Fair Work Act's frequency of...
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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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Dismissal for office joke unfair: FWC
The Fair Work Commission has held a logistics company unfairly dismissed a worker over her purported request for a male colleague to punch another woman, accepting her defence the statement was a joke. The decision highlights the importance for employers to consider the context of alleged inappropriate workplace conduct and whether dismissal is a p...
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Belan scored $300k plus payout deal with union
The National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW agreed to fork out more than $327k to its former state secretary Derrick Belan after he tendered his resignation in the face of his niece confessing to stealing members' money. However, the union has not paid him after NUW national secretary Tim Kennedy intervened. The Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) this...
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Belan admits union credit card used on cruise, on holidays, for tattoo
At presstime, ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan had denied spending thousands of dollars of members' money on a four-day P&O cruise, on yearly holidays to the south coast and a tattoo of his mother and father, claiming he had arranged for his niece to pay the money back from his wages. Belan took the stand at the Tr...
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Court orders $128k backpay for journo
The Federal Circuit Court has ordered $128k in backpay and interest for a journalist who was underpaid on the clerk award for about eight years and then dismissed when he refused to withdraw his claim. Nikola Jovic worked for FL Press from July 2003 to January 2011 as a journalist, including taking photos at Serbian community events, writing articl...
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Senate committee to consider portable entitlements
The Senate has initiated a committee inquiry into the feasibility of and options for creating a national long service leave (LSL) standard and the portability of long service and other entitlements. Yesterday (November 9) Greens Senator Janet Rice, Labor Senator Sue Lines and independent Senator John Madigan referred the matter to the Education and...
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Senate committee to consider portable entitlements
The Senate has initiated a committee inquiry into the feasibility of and options for creating a national long service leave (LSL) standard and the portability of long service and other entitlements. Yesterday (November 9) Greens Senator Janet Rice, Labor Senator Sue Lines and independent Senator John Madigan referred the matter to the Education and...
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Two-year restraint enforceable, but no breach by new employer: court
A court has held a financial planning firm was not liable to the ex-employer of one of its new hires, because although her two-year non-compete clause was enforceable the new employer had not knowingly induced her to breach it. The case highlighted the important distinction between restraints prohibiting solicitation of clients and prohibiting comp...
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Disruption is not the death of unionism: ACTU
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has opened its two-day conference into digital disruption vowing that unions will not allow the process to unwind employee conditions, and will use technological change as an opportunity to reshape the movement. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver made the comments today (November 11) in an opening address to th...
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Discreet 'dating services' recorded on Belan's union credit card
Exclusive Ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan's union credit card racked up years of payments to discreet “dating related” billing services, records tabled in the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) show. An analysis of Belan's union credit card records by Workforce Daily has revealed almost three years of pay...
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