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
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Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law seminar: ‘Regulating Unpaid Internships: Why It Matters and How Different Countries are Doing It' with Professor Andrew Stewart. 1-2pm, April 14, Melbourne law school. More info here . Future of Work: People, Place, Technology 2016 conference: April 20-21, Melbourne. More info here . The future o...
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Full Court lifts stay on safe rates but High Court challenge foreshadowed
A Full Court of the Federal Court has lifted the stay on the controversial Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) Order, thus igniting the taper under Independent Contractors Australia (ICA) to lodge a High Court application to have it thrown out. On press day, ICA executive director Ken Phillips told Workforce he “will be” lodging th...
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FWBC acting ‘vexatiously' by re-litigating settled matters: judge
The Federal Court has found the building industry watchdog engaged in an abuse of process by taking “unjustifiably vexatious and oppressive” legal action against the construction union over matters that were previously settled between the union and the employer involved. The ruling will add weight to the Construction Forestry Mining Ene...
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Thousands of electrical workers to stop work over bargaining conflict
Essential Energy workers across more than 100 depots, control rooms and other workplaces will begin industrial action next week with a four hour work stoppage. Electrical Trades Union (ETU) NSW secretary Steve Butler told Workforce NSW that 2,000 workers are expected to take part in the protests. The decision follows stalled enterprise agreement ne...
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Auditors to be briefed about ‘current environment' in wake of TURC
The Fair Work Commission is engaging with auditors this month to inform them about union and employer group compliance issues and potential weaknesses in internal controls. According to the cmn, the April 22 webinar will provide an overview of financial reporting requirements under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009. It will include ...
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‘All the best': FWC slams ‘appalling' sacking of casual by text
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has blasted a university child care centre's sacking of a casual by text message, calling it a “gutless abrogation” of the employer's obligation to act reasonably and decently on termination. Deputy President Peter Sams made the comments in rejecting Murdoch University Child Care Centre's jurisdictional ob...
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Full Court lifts stay on safe rates but High Court challenge foreshadowed
A Full Court of the Federal Court has lifted the stay on the controversial Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) Order, thus igniting the taper under Independent Contractors Australia (ICA) to lodge a High Court application to have it thrown out. On press day, ICA executive director Ken Phillips told Workforce he “will be” lodging th...
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‘All the best': Tribunal slams ‘appalling' sacking of casual by text
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has blasted a university child care centre's sacking of a casual by text message, calling it a “gutless abrogation” of the employer's obligation to act reasonably and decently on termination. Deputy President Peter Sams made the comments in rejecting Murdoch University Child Care Centre's jurisdictional ob...
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Auditors to be briefed about ‘current environment' in wake of TURC
The Fair Work Commission is engaging with auditors this month to inform them about union and employer group compliance issues and potential weaknesses in internal controls. According to the cmn, the April 22 webinar will provide an overview of financial reporting requirements under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009. It will include ...
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Lack of compulsory powers leads to 7-Eleven-like non-compliance: FWO
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) says lack of compulsory interview powers has hampered its ability to obtain evidence that 7-Eleven head office was “involved” in widespread underpayments. That was despite finding the franchisor had an unusually high degree of control over its franchisees and was on notice about underpayments for six years....
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Editorial Team
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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No social media test case as SBS, McIntyre settle claim
SBS Corporation and sacked sports journalist Scott McIntyre have settled a claim that his sacking last year over tweets criticising Anzac Day was unlawful termination. The case was set for three days of Federal Court hearings from today, with employment lawyers expecting it to form a test case over employees' rights to communicate on social media. ...
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Govt to abolish RSRT if re-elected
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that if the Coalition government is re-elected it will abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT), while a sixth Senate crossbencher has confirmed he will vote to legislate a stay of the tribunal's minimum safe rates order now in force. The announcement made yesterday (April 10) comes despite ...
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DHS to appeal FWC decision on public servants' free speech
The Department of Human Services (DHS) is appealing against a Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision that ordered Centerlink employee Daniel Starr to be reinstated despite him referring online to clients as “spastics and junkies”. In the original decision Vice President Adam Hatcher “reject(ed) entirely” that the Australian Pub...
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Leyonhjelm intervention justified Goodyear sacking over rifle: FWC
An employee's enlisting of crossbench Senator David Leyonhjelm to act as his support person when facing disciplinary action for allowing a high-powered rifle onto company premises helped ensure his employment relationship was “irreparably damaged”, the Fair Work Commission has held. Cmr Ian Cambridge found Goodyear IT manager and intern...
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Lambie backs immediate abolition of RSRT
The Federal Government is moving closer to having support for the abolition of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal before an election, with Senator Jacqui Lambie today declaring she would support its immediate scrapping as its safe rates order would have “killed off” 35,000 small and family trucking businesses. Lambie's support leaves...
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Employer failed to provide evidence so FWC held worker unfairly sacked
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered an employer to pay three-months wages to a chef it sacked for his bullying and aggressive behaviour towards co-workers after it failed to provide the employees' statements it used when it decided to sack him and the person who made the termination decision did not give evidence. “Put simply, the fail...
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MUA sets to strike at Patrick in Brisbane and Sydney
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is set to start 48 hour strike action tomorrow (April 13) at Patrick Stevedoring Port Botany and six days later in Brisbane - with parties disputing whether the strikes are linked. The MUA and Patrick have been in enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations at both sites for 12 months but talks have broken down over...
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Worker unfairly dismissed despite privacy and confidentiality breach
A worker sending himself sensitive company information post-termination in breach ofprivacy and confidentiality hasn't stopped the Fair Work Commission (FWC) finding he was unfairly dismissed because the original dismissal decision over performance was not valid. Commissioner Christopher Platt found Artis Group Pty Ltd's April 8, 2015, decision to ...
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