WFD: The Australian Labor Party has committed to eradicate the Coalition government's controversial public sector bargaining policy if it wins the upcoming federal election. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has been encouraging it's members to vote down a host of govt proposed enterprise agreements (EAs) in an attempt to force the Coali...
Labor commits to scrap Coalition bargaining policy
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Patrick threatens lockout as takes offer direct to a vote
WFD: Patrick Stevedores will put its “final offer” to a direct employee vote and has threatened a possible lock out if it is voted down after Maritime Union of Australia members continued their protected industrial action and failed to respond to the offer ( WF 15/04/15 ) . The offer, which cuts the initial first-year pay increase from ...
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Survey reveals mining's decline as peak body renews reform calls
WFD: 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...
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Chemist shop no Castle for bullying owner
WFD: A co-owner of a pharmacy sacked for bullying co-workers with abusive, homophobic and racist language has failed to win back his job. The Fair Work Commission (FWC) heard pharmacist Gary Wakeling abused workers at Foster Pharmacy in NSW by among other things telling them they were "weak as piss", calling his Chinese co-director “gay”...
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Full bench overturns decision not allowing casuals to vote on EA
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has quashed a decision that held a resource industry employer's workforce was not eligible to vote in an enterprise agreement (EA) ballot as they were casuals who were not employed “at the time” of the vote. The bench said such a finding could lead to voter “manipulation”. McDermo...
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CFMEU official hit with record RoE ban despite mental condition
WFD: A Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Qld branch official has been banned from entering job sites for two years, after he entered a site illegally under the guise of an occupational health and safety (OHS) inspection. The Federal Circuit Court (FCC) earlier fined Scott Vink over the breach, in which he abused the site's OHS manag...
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Anger at having pay docked sparks strike at airport
WFD: Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members atthe Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) went on a 24-hour strike on Monday (April 18) 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 th...
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Trolley collector fired after underpayment complaint to Coles
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a Coles subcontractor unfairly fired its trolley collector because he had complained to the supermarket chain that he and others might be underpaid. The findings come just two years since Coles signed an enforceable undertaking (EU), declaring it has a "moral and ethical responsibility" to ensure supply-chai...
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‘Stalker' fairly dismissed without warning or notice
WFD: 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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Diary
FWC Workplace Relations Lecture: ‘The Fair Work Commission & the Anti-Bullying Jurisdiction'. Speaker is Commissioner Peter Hampton. Panel includes Associate Professor Anna Chapman, Maurice Blackburn employment head Josh Bornstein and Ashurst partner Steven Amendola. May 16, 5:30-7pm, Melbourne Law School. More info here . Australian Labo...
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Govt makes ‘future of work' IR battleground for election
The Federal Government is framing its workplace relations election policy around the “future of work”, declaring the current system is “stuck in the past” and has not kept up with fundamentally different ways of doing business as represented by disruptors such as Uber and Airtasker. However, it has stressed that any reforms ...
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Vic public service workers back EA
Victorian public sector workers have overwhelmingly voted up a new enterprise agreement (EA) that provides a 13% pay rise over four years. Agreed to in principle in December last year and backed by 95% of 15,000 voting employees in a ballot this week, the EA will be backdated to January 1, 2016. The deal provides a total 3.25% annual wage increase,...
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MUA to strike again at Melb, claim mgrs making different EA offers
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has turned up the pressure on Patricks Stevedores over their enterprise agreement (EA) dispute by calling another 48 hour strike at Melbourne East Swanston Dock (ESD), reiterating claims the company's “final offer” wasn't genuine. The ESD strike on April 28-30 will happen just five days prior to Pat...
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Power station challenges CFMEU strikes in front of full bench
AGL Loy Yang power station challenged the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union's (CFMEU) protected action ballot order (PABO) at a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench hearing yesterday (April 21) and called for FWC assistance to resolve the matter in the face of potential industrial action. AGL in Victoria's Latrobe Valley has been negotiati...
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Greens IR policy to give FWC ‘secure employment' powers
The Australian Greens party will seek to legislate casual conversion pathways in the Fair Work Act, including allowing the Fair Work Commission to issue “secure employment” orders for entire industries. As part of the Greens Industrial Relations policy for the upcoming election it has drafted the Fair Work Amendment (Tackling Job Insecu...
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CPSU slams FWC ruling suspending industrial action
WFD: The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) national secretary Nadine Flood has slammed a Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruling suspending Australian Border Force (ABF) protected industrial action for three months, saying it contained significant errors and the union was considering an appeal. Flood said the CPSU “categorically rejects̶...
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Penalty rates cut ‘inevitable': FWC cmr
WFD: Cuts to Sunday penalty rates are “inevitable”, a retiring Fair Work Commissioner has opined as a full bench prepares to determine employers' bid to align weekend rates in retail and hospitality. In an interview with Workforce , ex-FWC Commissioner and former union head Michael Roberts, who retired last Friday (April 22), said that ...
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FWC ethnic diversity has to improve: ex-cmr
WFD: Retiring Fair Work Commissioner Michael Roberts has called for the ethnic diversity of IR courts and tribunals to improve, noting the cmn had no members of Asian descent despite Australia's changing make up. Speaking to Workforce Daily as he retired after 15 years with the cmn, Roberts praised FWC's improving gender balance, with three out of ...
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TURC police raided CFMEU law firm over ‘extortion' claims: union
WFD: The Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) police taskforce executed a search warrant on Hall Payne Lawyers, the law firm representing a Qld construction union organiser, based on allegations that taking an employer to court over possible right of entry breaches was “extortion”. The claim forms part of a wide range of allegations in t...
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