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Govt knocks back bid to bring on ABCC Bills

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WFD: The Federal Government has this afternoon shut down crossbench senator Ricky Muir's bid to bring forward a vote on the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) ahead of Senate voting reforms (WF 14/03/16). As his motion to amend the Govt's order of business in the Senate was denied, Muir argued the Govt could no longer claim the ...

Driver pay order in limbo as RSRT defers decision on delay

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WFD: The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) has deferred until next week a decision on an employers' bid to delay its driver pay order until 2017, leaving the order's fate in limbo just days before it is due to come into effect (WF 11/3/2016 ) . The tribunal this morning heard from employers and owner drivers who said they were in a state of ...

Thomson deliberately misled parliament, committee finds

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Disgraced former federal MP and Health Services Union national secretary Craig Thomson now has “deliberately misleading parliament” on the list of findings against him. A parliamentary committee in a report tabled yesterday recommended the House of Representatives find Thomson guilty of contempt over a May 2012 statement to parliament i...

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Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association national conference : 'WORK - Then, Now & What's Next', May 26-28, Pier One Sydney Harbour, The Rocks, Sydney. More info here .

Editorial Team

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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. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Labor exploitation Bill opens door for criminal offences in IR: AMMA

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WFD: Resource employers have criticised Labor as hypocritical in seeking to introduce jail time for deliberate worker exploitation and warned its new proposed legislation opens the door to criminal offences being introduced down the track for union coercion and intimidation in bargaining. Meanwhile, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (...

Senate report wants Aussie worker requirements; franchise shake-up

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A Labor-Greens Senate committee has recommended that franchisors be made to take greater responsibility for their franchisees' workplace compliance to combat cases of systemic visa worker exploitation. The education and employment committee also proposed specifically prohibiting replacement of local workers by s457 visa workers and introducing requ...

Unions challenge Inco Ships ‘overseas EA'

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Two seafaring unions have been allowed to intervene in the approval of an enterprise agreement (EA) for an international ship operator that has been taking over Australian-crewed ships and replacing them with foreign seafarers, despite the unions not being involved in the bargaining.. Fair Work Commissioner Ian Cambridge granted the Australian Inst...

‘Harebrained' corrections officer fairly fired over $50 theft

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a “dishonest and foolish” correctional officer was fairly dismissed for stealing $50 from a “decent and respectable” colleague in a scam his own lawyer argued “was so bizarre and harebrained that it was inherently improbable”. Commissioner Ian Cambridge upheld GEO Group Au...

Fairfax journalists strike as 120 jobs to go

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Striking Fairfax journalists have today endorsed a motion seeking Fairfax Media to minimise job losses, conduct meaningful and transparent consultation, and extend talks about the cuts from two to four weeks. Following Fairfax media executive director Sean Aylmer yesterday announcing a “proposal” to cut costs by the equivalent of 120 fu...

FWC shifting from ‘liberal' interpretation of agreements: DP

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The Fair Work Commission has narrowed its approach to interpreting enterprise agreement (EA) clauses in recent years, according to a senior member of the cmn. In Thomson Reuters' latest Workplace Review journal, Deputy President Reg Hamilton argued that prior to 2014 FWC had adopted a broad approach to employers' EA obligations - focused on achievi...

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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

New Bill to legislate workers' right to super choice

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A superannuation amendment bill introduced into Federal Parliament will prevent Australian unions from restricting workers' choice of superannuation funds in enterprise agreements (EAs). The Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 would amend the Superannuation Guarantee Act 1992 allowing employees under new workplace determinations or EAs m...

GG recalls Senate to vote on ABCC/Reg Orgs as IR election looms

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The Governor General (GG) has recalled the Senate to next month vote on legislation restoring the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and establish a Registered Organisations Cmn, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull threatening a double dissolution (DD) election if the bills are not passed. Turnbull revealed at a press conferenc...

FWC stays broad RoE restrictions against CFMEU branches

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The Construction Forestr Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has won a stay order against sweeping right of entry (RoE) restrictions on its branches and union organisers. On Friday (March 18), Fair Work Commission (FWC) Vice President Joe Catanzariti granted a stay after finding the union had “reasonable prospects of success” in appealing again...

Director fined 98k for not paying workers in ‘phoenix operation'

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In a rare decision penalising phoenix activity, the sole director and secretary of a textile business has been ordered to pay $98k after not paying employees their wages and entitlements when she closed her business and starting up a phoenix company. Federal Circuit Court Judge Philip Burchardt urged courts to take a “severe view” of ph...

Lambie gives firm ‘no' on ABCC Bill

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Senator Jacqui Lambie has declared she will be voting ‘no' to the Federal Government's Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) Bill, despite threats of a double dissolution election if it does not pass. Lambie's strong opposition suggests the Bill is facing defeat as only five other crossbench senators have suggested they may v...

Landmark FWO win forces director to pay penalties from own account

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For the first time the Fair Work Ombudsmen (FWO) has obtained an Attachment of Earnings Order ensuring penalties do not go unpaid, after the Federal Circuit Court ordered $500 a fortnight to be taken from a former restaurant director's earnings to pay off outstanding court-imposed penalties. Sona Peaks Pty Ltd and its then director and sole operato...

Positive drug test valid reason for dismissal despite not at work

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held a road construction company did not unfairly sack a depressed worker for serious misconduct when he tested positive for non-prescription drugs while not at work. Commissioner Nick Wilson held that Supersealing had a valid reason for dismissing crack sealer George Haslett because passing the drug test was a re...

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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
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