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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Union delegate sacked during bargaining gets job back under GFB
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has succeeded in using good faith bargaining (GFB) provisions to reinstate a workplace delegate who was warned for talking to the media during a picket and then fired for stopping work early during a protected overtime ban. Fair Work Commission (FWC) Deputy President Anne Gooley issued the rare s 23...
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Removal of CFMEU flags spark mass walkout
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has been ordered to stop unprotected strike action after about 100 workers allegedly walked off site in response to Lend Lease's directions to take down union flags hanging from its cranes. Ninety-four employees from Lend Lease and 16 contractors at the RNA Showground site in Qld allegedly stopp...
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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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Libs to abolish truckie min safe rates order before election
The Liberal Government will seek to abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) next week, not leave it until if it is re-elected as announced just days ago. However, the govt still needs at least one more crossbench vote to get the proposed abolition passed the Senate. Meanwhile, the High Court is set to determine an Independent Contracto...
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Govt has numbers to abolish RSRT as TWU now seeks 2017 delay
In a last-ditch attempt to save truck drivers' safe rates, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) has applied to the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) for a delay in the tribunal's minimum rates until 2017 and for variations to address owner drivers' concerns. The move comes as the Federal Government appears to have clinched the numbers to scrap ...
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Unions say LSL loophole leaves thousands exposed
Western Australia's offshore construction unions are calling on the state government to close what they say is a legal gap that threatens the long service leave (LSL) entitlements of thousands of workers. Their call follows the state Industrial Relations Commission's decision this month to uphold a finding by the Construction Industry LSL Payments ...
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Seven exec's assets frozen over fraud claims
The Seven Network has succeeded in freezing the million-dollar assets of a senior manager after uncovering evidence he engaged in fraud by transferring money to his companies through false invoices. The NSW Supreme Court granted the ex parte asset preservation orders on Monday (April 11) against programming commercial manager John Fitzgerald, his w...
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Leave cashing out not automatic on request: FWC
An enterprise agreement (EA) clause allowing employees to cash out their personal/carer's leave doesn't give them an “automatic” right to do so, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. Deputy President John Kovacic held that the Asahi Premium Beverages Laverton Enterprise Agreement 2015 EA required the company and employee to agree to the c...
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Patrick gives MUA ‘final' EA offer after strikes spread to a fourth state
Patrick Stevedores has today given the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) until Friday, April 15 to respond to its “final enterprise agreement” (EA) offer for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Freemantle terminals, cutting its first year pay offer from a three to one per cent increase. Today's final offer has come after MUA announced a two...
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Editorial Team
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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Patrick gives MUA 'final' EA offer after strikes spread to a fourth state
WFD: Patrick Stevedores has today given the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) until Friday (April 15) to respond to its "final enterprise agreement" (EA) offer for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Freemantle terminals, cutting its first year pay offer from a three to one per cent increase. Thursday's (April 14) final offer has come after MUA announc...
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Seven exec's assets frozen over fraud claims
WFD: The Seven Network has succeeded in freezing the million-dollar assets of a senior manager after uncovering evidence he engaged in fraud by transferring money to his companies through false invoices. The NSW Supreme Court granted the ex parte asset preservation orders on Monday (April 11) against programming commercial manager John Fitzgerald, ...
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MUA sets to strike at Patrick in Brisbane and Sydney
WFD: 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...
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Leyonhjelm intervention justified Goodyear sacking over rifle: FWC
WFD: 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 i...
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DHS to appeal FWC decision on public servants' free speech
WFD: 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 Australia...
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Employer failed to provide evidence so FWC held worker unfairly sacked
WFD: 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...
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Worker unfairly dismissed despite privacy and confidentiality breach
WFD: A worker sending himself sensitive company information post-termination in breach of privacy 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, decisi...
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No social media test case as SBS, McIntyre settle claim
WFD: 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 Monday (April 11), with employment lawyers expecting it to form a test case over employees' rights to communicate ...
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Unions say LSL loophole leaves thousands exposed
WFD: Western Australia's offshore construction unions are calling on the state government to close what they say is a legal gap that threatens the long service leave (LSL) entitlements of thousands of workers. Their call follows the state Industrial Relations Commission's decision this month to uphold a finding by the Construction Industry LSL Paym...
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