WFD: 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 ...
Removal of CFMEU flags spark mass walkout
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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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Union delegate sacked during bargaining gets job back under GFB
WFD: 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...
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Lack of compulsory powers leads to 7-Eleven-like non-compliance: FWO
WFD: 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 findings the franchisor had an unusually high degree of control over its franchisees and was on notice about underpayments for six ...
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PC hands immigration report to Government
The Productivity Commission (PC) was due today (April 15) to hand the Federal Government its final report on future criteria for Australia's immigration program, including the possibility of fees rather than skills-based working visas. The PC began its Migrant Intake into Australia inquiry a year ago after the govt asked it to examine “potent...
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Diary
Future of Work: People, Place, Technology 2016 conference: April 20-21, Melbourne. More info here . The future of industrial relations - a special breakfast with Senator Michaelia Cash: 8am, April 22, Lander & Rogers, Level 19, 123 Pitt St, Sydney. RSVP here . Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law seminar: ‘The Heydon Royal Commi...
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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
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FWO will not enforce early breaches of safe rates order
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has today declared it will not enforce the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal's (RSRT) safe rates order in its early days given "ongoing confusion and concern” over its introduction. The statement follows employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash yesterday requesting the FWO issue “guidance” as to its...
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Bench refuses to rule out removal from elected role under bully orders
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has left open the possibility that anti-bullying orders could include removing members from an elected committee of an incorporated association, in a decision rejecting that such a claim was “beyond power” and so grounds for costs. WA's Collie Chamber of Commerce members David Churches, Nic Smargi...
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Big penalties for muso's as FWC GM becomes ‘more activist'
In a case representing a more “activist approach” by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) General Manager (GM), the Federal Court has ordered the Musicians Union of Australia (Musos) and its national secretary to pay a total$93k for failing to prepare, lodge and provide to its members financial reports between 2007 and 2012. The Musos and nat...
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MUA rebuffs Patrick deadline
At press time, Patrick Stevedores had decided it would give the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) workers another week to consider its final offer after the union failed meet its deadline today (April 15) to respond. The MUA has rejected Patrick's deadline for the stevedore's “so-called” final offer for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and F...
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ABCC Bill set to be defeated
At presstime, the Federal Government appeared not to have the numbers to pass the Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) Bill, with crossbench senators Ricky Muir and Jacqui Lambie declaring they were voting it down. Meanwhile, the Govt has today introduced into the lower house the legislation to abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tri...
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Anger at having pay docked sparks strike at airport
On press day, Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members atthe Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) have gone on a 24 hour strike today ending at midnight. The DAWR workers incorporating quarantine and bio-security officers at international airports and freight facilities decided to strike in-part because management docked the...
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‘Stalker' fairly dismissed without warning or notice
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has suggested a medical practice manager's alleged stalking of her boss - and close friend - meant the small business employer did not have to meet with her directly for her to respond to fraud allegations that formed the basis of her summary dismissal. Obstetrician/gynaecologist Dr Elizabeth Varughese t/a Eve O &...
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Locked up worker loses bid to adjourn unfair dismissal claim
A public servant sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for child sex offences in November 2012 but who remains behind bars following further charges has lost his attempt to have his unfair dismissal claim adjourned until he was released from jail. Fair Work Commission Senior Deputy President Peter Richards noted former Department of Defence joint ...
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Survey reveals mining's decline as peak body renews reform calls
Some 94% of resource industry employers want unions to be subject to an enforceable code of conduct relating to when they enter a workplace, according to a survey by the Aust Mines & Metals Assoc (AMMA). AMMA's 2016 federal election survey found most of the more than 100 respondents were concerned about the cost of facilitating union entry R...
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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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Non-union tug crew excluded from RoE by ‘triangular' relationship
The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (AIMPE) has failed to gain access to documents that could help it gain Right of Entry (RoE) to a BHP Billiton tug boat provider operated under a complex “triangular contracting arrangement” because the union didn't provide evidence the persons on the boat were employees. Fair Work C...
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Survey reveals mining's decline as peak body renews reform calls
Some 94% of resource industry employers want unions to be subject to an enforceable code of conduct relating to when they enter a workplace, according to a survey by the Aust Mines & Metals Assoc (AMMA). AMMA's 2016 federal election survey found most of the more than 100 respondents were concerned about the cost of facilitating union entry R...
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RSRT ‘no longer exists' as Senate votes to abolish
The Senate late last night voted to abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT), just hours after the tribunal issued a statement saying it was considering a stay of its safe rates order until 2017. The vote means the RSRT along with its minimum rates order that came into effect April 4 will be abolished by Thursday (April 21), with the Go...
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