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Unionists should vote in ALP preselections: RTBU Vic sec

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Members of trade unions affiliated to the Australian Labor Party should be able to vote in preselections to reinvigorate grassroots democracy in the party, the Rail Tram and Bus Union Vic secretary Luba Grigorovitch has said. Grigorovitch advocated the change at an Open Labor event on November 24 in a panel discussion focused on renewing the relati...

Labour share of income climbs as productivity rises

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WFD: Labour productivity has increased substantially in the past few quarters, reversing its recent slow down and returning to its yearly average of about 2%. The National Accounts , released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday (Dec 2), showed that gross value added per hour in the market sector (a measure of productivity) rose 0.7%...

NUW pushes labour hire licensing at Vic inquiry

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WFD: The National Union of Workers (NUW) has called for a national or state-based labour hire licensing scheme to combat compliance issues including phoenixing, lack of transparency and lack of enforceable legal obligations against individuals behind unscrupulous labour hire providers. The NUW made the submission to the Vic labour hire and insecure...

Loss of supply contracts is ‘ordinary turnover': Full Bench

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WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has upheld an appeal that loss of supply contracts was “ordinary and customary turnover of labour” which justified refusing sacked workers a redundancy payment. The bench - Vice President Graeme Watson, Deputy President John Kovacic and Commissioner Nick Wilson - found the labour supplier reg...

Employers push back against labour hire licensing

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WFD: Labour hire companies and employer groups including the Australian Industry Group (AiG) have raised concerns over union proposals to institute a labour hire licensing scheme in Vic, suggesting already “unscrupulous” providers would simply ignore further regulation. The resistance comes as the Vic labour hire inquiry heard evidence ...

AMMA accuses Vic inquiry chief of apparent prejudgment on licensing

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WFD: Professor Anthony Forsyth has emphatically rejected a peak employer group's accusations that he appeared to have prejudged key issues facing the Vic labour hire inquiry he heads, including on the need for a licensing regime and by describing underpayment claims at 7-Eleven and in the food industry as “scandals”. In its submission t...

Crossbench backs super review which may sink governance bill

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WFD: Labor, the Greens and four crossbench Senators have combined to delay a Government bill mandating one-third independent directors on industry super funds' boards, by referring it to a committee while a review of not-for-profit super governance is conducted. The review, launched by Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of ...

FWC to examine ex-Cmr's investigation of employee

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WFD: Ex-Fair Work commissioner turned employment relations consultant Barbara Deegan's investigation into misconduct allegations at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is set to be scrutinised by her former employer. Deputy President Geoffrey Bull last week considered the ATO's arguments that sacked employee Fahmid Rahman's bid for the investigati...

Payment for 457 visa sponsorship outlawed

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WFD: The Federal Government's proposed penalties for work visa sponsorship fraud have passed both houses of parliament, with the Senate rejecting Labor amendments which would have protected visa holders who were coerced to make the payments. The Migration Amendment (Charging for a Migration Outcome) Bill 2015 passed the Senate last Wednesday (Novem...

Whistleblower sacked after complaining about student cage

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WFD: An employer has been accused of unfair dismissal after it sacked a whistleblower who complained about a Canberra primary school having a cage for autistic students. The story received significant media coverage this year, with the school's principal suspended and later sacked over the construction of the 2m by 2m cage. Jeremy Butler argued his...

Perjury charges laid over Cbus leak

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WFD: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two former Cbus employees for giving false evidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC). Workforce Daily understands police laid charges against ex-Cbus member coordinator Lisa Zanatta and ex-manager Maria Butera under s 6H of the Royal Commissions Act relating to false or misleading evide...

Late-night AFP raid on CFMEU ACT unlawful: judge

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WFD: The ACT Supreme Court has ruled the Australian Federal Police's (AFP) late-night raid of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union's (CFMEU) Canberra offices over alleged blackmail offences was illegal and has ordered it to destroy copies of evidence seized from the search. The decision marks another embarrassment for the Trade Union Royal...

CPSU crowd-sources strike pay

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WFD: In what it acknowledges is an “unusual” innovation, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is encouraging its members and the general public to pay for its ongoing public sector bargaining battle by tipping into an online crowd-sourced fund for strike pay. The CPSU announced its ‘ campaign fund ' no November 30, after t...

High Court closes sham contracting loophole

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WFD: The High Court has upheld a Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) appeal to close a loophole which allowed employers to avoid prosecution for sham contracting when they had told employees a third-party was to engage them as independent contractors. The unanimous ruling clarifies that ‘sham contracting' encompasses all false representations that empl...

NUW NSW suspended over fraud

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Unions NSW has suspended the National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW following revelations in the Trade Union Royal Commission of union credit card fraud and misappropriation of members' money within the branch (WF 6/11/15). Last night, Unions NSW's executive voted to suspend the NUW as an affiliate until it could satisfy it that its governance practic...

Editorial Team

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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 : 314021719905. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

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Financial Review National Policy Series - Workforce & Productivity Summit: December 8-9, 2015. Sofitel, Melbourne. Speakers include Ged Kearney, Peter Harris and Kate Carnell. More info here .

Facebook chats justifying sacking of ‘leaker' obtained illegally: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held it was inappropriate for an employer to accept copies of an employee's private Facebook chats from her disgruntled ex-husband, in a ruling that summary dismissal for allegedly leaking sensitive information to the union, the media and a Labor politician was unfair. However, while rejecting the leak claims due ...

Qld launches inquiry into labour hire ‘rogues'

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The Queensland Government has launched a parliamentary inquiry into ‘rogue' labour hire operators, including how the sector should be regulated to stamp out exploitation. Yesterday (December 3), Treasurer and IR minister Curtis Pitt announced the inquiry, which “aimed to ensure employers are complying with Qld's workplace laws and that ...

Bench upholds HSU Vic No 1 right-of-entry permit revocation

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has dismissed an appeal from the Health Services Union (HSU) Vic No 1 branch disputing the revocation of secretary Diana Asmar and senior lead organiser Nick Katsis's right-of-entry (RoE) permits. On June 29, Vice President Graeme Watson revoked Asmar and Katsis's entry permits, after finding the pair cheated on th...
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