WFD: Bowen Basin unions and BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) have confirmed they have agreed to a framework to finalise talks over a new EA covering BMA's Bowen Basin industrial action-afflicted mines in North Queensland. Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union Queensland district president Steve Smyth confirmed the deal was struck late las...
Bowen Basin strikes on hold as BMA & unions agree to finalise EA
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SDA signs off on David Jones deal: Woolworths, Big W to follow soon
WFD: The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) has reached agreement with David Jones for a new enterprise agreement giving more than 9,000 workers a 10.2% wage increase over three years. And the union has struck deals with Woolworths and Big W, SDA national secretary Joe de Bruyn revealed to Workforce Daily . The David Jones EA ...
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Kmart deal done, but demark tensions surface at Target
WFD: The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) has reached agreement with Kmart for a new four-year enterprise agreement (EA) giving more than 25,000 workers annual 3.5% wage increases. However, SDA national secretary Joe de Bruyn told Workforce demark tensions had surfaced in talks for a new EA with Target after the National Uni...
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Diary
The Ron McCallum Debate 2012 , August 2, 4pm-6pm, Swisshotel, 8/68 Market St, Sydney. RSVP to admin@aierights.com.au by July 30. Western Australia IR Society Conference: August 3-4, 2012, Quay West Bunker Bay Resort. See website . Queensland IR Society Conference: August 9-10, 2012, Jupiter Hotel & Casino, Gold Coast, Qld. Conference brochure h...
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FWA denies NUW bargaining order after workers switch allegiances
WFD: Fair Work Australia has rejected a union's arguments that it gained default bargaining status the moment it acquired members at a workplace. The National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW branch claimed it did not matter that it had no members when a notice of representational rights was issued. However, in a ruling canvassing the Fair Work Act's pro...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718295. Twitter: @WorkforceTR .
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Shorten rejects call to subject IR system to anti-competition laws
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has strongly rejected calls by Productivity Commission (PC) chair Gary Banks to include workplace laws in forthcoming reviews of anti-competitive conduct. Speaking at an economists conference in Melbourne yesterday, Banks challenged the view that workplace laws and unions should be excluded from anti-compet...
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Reform adverse action laws so bosses can address bullying: AMMA
The Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) has demanded the Federal Government reform the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions to enable employers to deal with union bullying. Its submission to the parliamentary inquiry into workplace bullying cited unions that allegedly intimidated workers who were non-union or did not support strike ...
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High Court frees up IRCs from state govt limits
A High Court decision finding a state industrial relations commission has jurisdiction to consider whether a state government's legislative changes breach public sector enterprise agreements (EAs) could have significant ramifications for the other states. According to unions, the judgment enforces the independence of commissions to determine whethe...
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Abbott's best friend claim a precursor to dog-eat-dog IR: ACTU
The ACTU has called on Tony Abbott to declare the Coalition's IR policy following the Opposition leader's claim that workers would view him as their “best friend” should he become PM. Abbott made that statement to journalists yesterday, elaborating on a speech at a business lunch in Sydney earlier that day (July 12)."Right now we have g...
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IR heavies to face-off at Ron McCallum productivity debate
Productivity and the role of workplace regulation is the central topic in the 2012 Ron McCallum debate on August 2 in Sydney (see Diary) . McCallum, emeritus professor and Fair Work Review panel member, will speak on the future of workplace regulation. This year's debaters are Aust HR Institute head Peter Wilson, ACTU asst secretary Tim Lyons, Busi...
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Toll goes to FWA, argues picket line against GFB
At press time (July 13), Toll Group was seeking Fair Work Australia bargaining orders to stop the “illegal” picket line at Coles' Somerton distribution centre. Workforce understands the company is taking the novel approach of arguing the Toll workers' picket line, which has been blocking trucks from entering the Somerton site, is agains...
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Coles fears Vic strike action will spread
WFD: On Wednesday (July 11) Fair Work Australia Commissioner Alastair Macdonald granted Coles' application for orders banning unlawful industrial action at its NSW distribution sites, following Goulburn workers' refusal to do work normally done by the striking Toll workers at its Victorian Somerton centre. Coles argued the Toll workers' indefinite ...
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'Equal rights for equal sites': Coles outsourced labour strike indefinitely
WFD: Hundreds of Toll Group workers at one of Coles' largest national distribution centres have taken indefinite strike action to protest management's refusal to pay the same pay and conditions as Coles workers at other warehouse sites. About 200 of the 600 Toll workers at Somerton distribution centre in Victoria - one of Coles' two national centre...
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Not enough independence so contractors were employees
In a significant ruling for consultants, Fair Work Australia has ruled third party contractors who perform regular tasks and present themselves as an “emanation” of the business are employees and not independent contractors. Examining precedent cases on the employee vs independent contractor issue, Commissioner Suzie Jones ruled special...
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HSU investigator Nassios rejects Thomson's bias claim
Terry Nassios, Fair Work Australia's lead investigator into the Health Services Union (HSU) national office, gave evidence to a parliamentary inquiry today about the investigation and its findings. Nassios defended his investigation and the time it took to complete. “I still am of the view that it was a proper investigation that took the appr...
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Toll dispute: Court hands down injunction orders against NUW
At presstime, the Supreme Court of Victoria handed down injunction orders against eight National Union of Workers (NUW) officials, paving the way for the dispersal of the six-day long picket line at Coles' Somerton distribution centre in Melbourne. Toll sought the injunctions after Fair Work Australia Commissioner Anna Cribb ruled late on Friday (J...
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Bluescope seeks to block PABOs
Fair Work Australia has found a union was genuinely trying to reach agreement in negotiations, despite evidence it had not communicated the company's latest offer to workers. In early July, four NSW unions - the Australian Workers Union (AWU), the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) and...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . ChiefJournalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR .
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High Court SA ruling impact ‘exaggerated': Stewart
Public sector union comments that last week's High Court decision means state government legislative changes could be held in breach of enterprise agreements (EAs) were “exaggerated” or “wishful thinking”, industrial relations law expert professor Andrew Stewart has said. The High Court granted an appeal by the South Austral...
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