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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Bernadette McBride. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product Code : 314021719965. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Study reveals 100% of Chinese waiters on student visas underpaid

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Landmark data on overseas worker exploitation has revealed almost 75% of Chinese student visa workers in Sydney are paid below the minimum wage, with two out of five paid just $12 an hour or less. For those working as waiters, 100% are paid below the minimum award rate for casuals. The figures represent the first in-depth data on international work...

Unions should back new watchdog: Forsyth

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Labour law academic Anthony Forsyth has called on unions to “learn to live” with the Federal Government's proposed Register Organisations Commission (ROC), as well as other Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) recommendations, so as to repair damage done to the union brand. Speaking at a panel on TURC hosted by the Association of IR Acad...

Full bench allows PC report in review of penalty rates

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The Fair Work Commission full bench will allow the Productivity Commission's (PC) recommendation to cut Sunday penalty rates in retail and hospitality industries to be considered in the 4-yearly review of modern awards, but as a submission - not as “expert opinion evidence”. The bench - President Iain Ross, Vice President Joe Catanzarit...

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Victim ‘wanted to embarrass' boss & legal reps through bullying orders

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has thrown out an application by a bullying victim for stop bullying orders, because policies the employer had proposed had yet to take effect. Commissioner Peter Hampton agreed with the employer - a well-known restaurant in Adelaide - that there was “an element of wanting to embarrass some of the parties”...

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

‘Say NO to douche-bag internships': owner fined over unpaid media labour

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A marketing businesswoman who spoke out against the industry's abuse of internships as free labour has been fined more than $17k for using unpaid interns. The Federal Circuit Court imposed the penalty against Naomi-Jayne Aldred for being knowingly involved in underpayments, sham contracting, failing to provide pay slips or produce records for three...

Bench narrows unfair dismissal exclusions for third party work

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A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has held that a generic labour hire or consultancy contract to perform work for a third party client is not a contract for a “specified task” and so not excluded from unfair dismissal protections. The bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Geoff Bull and Commissioner Chris Platt - m...

FWC flags 7% pay reduction ok for teacher's work bans

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In an interim ruling looking at how to calculate pay deductions during partial work bans, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found the Catholic Education Office's (CEO) cutting of teachers' pay by 7% for every half hour not worked during partial work bans “fundamentally” complied with the Fair Work Act (Act). However, because it was not...

Penalty rates to be considered for LSL pay in new Vic inquiry

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The Vic government will consider in a review of long service leave (LSL) whether workers who ordinarily work weekends and shifts should have penalty rates calculated into LSL pay, which it said could act as an incentive for some to take it. Announcing the review this morning, the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources wil...

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

TURC-style laws hit a ‘closed door' in Qld parliament

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On a dramatic first day of Qld parliament for 2016, a Liberal National Party (LNP) motion to re-introduce a bill for mandatory union 24-hour notificationbefore entering workplaces was voted down. Shadow Attorney-General Ian Walker told parliament yesterday he wanted the notice requirements reintroduced under Qld workplace health and safety law beca...

Hospitality X terminates EA ‘scam' amid union court action

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In a surprise about-turn, Hospitality X (part of the AWX group of labour hire companies) has terminated its prized enterprise agreement (EA) that allowed it to not pay penalty rates, allowances or overtime if workers “voluntarily” wished to work those hours. The agreement's termination, accepted last week by the Fair Work Commission, co...

IR veteran dies

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Federal Circuit Court judge and former IR commissioner Dominica Whelan has passed away suddenly after a battle with cancer. Workforce Daily understands Whelan died at 1:30am last night, having taken sick leave on and off from her role as judge. Whelan was a commissioner of the Australian IR Commission and Fair Work Australia from 1995 until 2010 wh...

‘Likely' future earnings reduce unfair dismissal remedy to zilch

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A worker has won his unfair dismissal proceeding but failed to gain any remedy because his post-dismissal earnings and likely future earnings as an independent contractor would exceed what he would have made if he had stayed. Fair Work Commission Senior Deputy President Peter Richards reached his decision “with some care” noting the ran...

Employer gets blasted $35k after challenging Fair Work's authority

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The Federal Circuit Court (FCC) has fined an employer $35,500 because of its failure to carry out a Fair Work Commission (FWC) order to compensate an unfairly dismissed employee $8k. After ignoring the 2014 FWC order to pay the sales and marketing worker, the Fair Work Ombudsmen (FWO) made what turned out to be several futile requests to get AAA Au...

Full Court to consider ‘new pathway' to EA variations

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Teys Beenleigh has appealed a Federal Court precedent ruling that held a Fair Work Act provision allows enterprise agreements (EAs) to incorporate material that come into effect after the EA was made, without going through requirements for variations. A Full Federal Court will hear the challenge to Justice Mordy Bromberg's decision handed down earl...

Hadgkiss denies bullying rife within FWBC

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Fair Work Building Construction (FWBC) head Nigel Hadgkiss has rejected claims by Labor Senator Doug Cameron that he is a respondent in two bullying and harassment cases and that his organisation is “riven with bullying”. Senator Cameron has in turn come under fire from employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash, who challenged him to m...

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