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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

Bad trip secures sacking over drive home

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A veteran mine operator fired after he ploughed through the front of three houses on his way home from work has had his unfair dismissal claim thrown out after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) rejected his denials he had not smoked synthetic cannabis before or during the journey. AGL Loy Yang Pty Ltd had terminated Colin Wright after the accident bec...

Bench denies FWBC access to CFMEU membership records

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The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has prevented the building watchdog from getting access to its member details after a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench ruled the Fair Work Registered Organisations Act (RO Act) does not provide powers to order membership records to “aid an investigation of a regulator”. Howe...

‘Destructive' conflict of interest no small sin for 25-year veteran: FWC

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has rejected a worker's unfair dismissal claim because he'd failed to disclose his involvement with a company seeking a contract with his employer. FWC said his conduct was destructive of the necessary confidence between the employer and employee. Manufacturer Cryovac Australia Pty Ltd trading as Sealed Air sacke...

Overseas worker underpayment claims surface at Subway

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WFD: Underpayment claims have been made at a Subway fast-food outlet, with a union alleging the outlet constructively fired a visa worker because she complained about not being paid properly after working seven days a week for a month. In a legal action filed last week, the Shop Distributive Allied Employees Association (SDA) alleged Subway's Bentl...

Report recommendations are ‘adverse action; trainee reviews not'

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WFD: The Federal Court has ruled an independent investigator's recommendation to consider terminating a trainee employee can constitute adverse action, even if it had no practical effect. Justice Richard White held the recommendation was adverse because it undermined the prison trainee's expectation that in the ordinary course he would be appointed...

Top IR lawyers brought in as judge inquires into CPSU Vic election

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WFD: The Federal Court will hold an inquiry on May 26 to determine whether Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Vic branch secretary Karen Batt must face off in an election against member and employee Jim Reid after the union challenged Reid's eligibility. The ballot for the union leadership, which was set to open May 19, is now being stayed un...

CPSU Vic heads to court to stop challenger for union boss

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WFD: The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Vic branch is contesting union employee Jim Reid's right to run for branch secretary in court, despite earlier indications that incumbent Karen Batt had accepted the first challenge to her leadership in 20 years ( WF 06/05/16 ). The union last Friday (May 6) filed a Federal Court challenge to the Au...

New IR judges selected for FCC

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WFD: The Federal Government last week announced two IR barristers had been appointed as judges to the Federal Circuit Court, including one with a key role in adverse action cases involving industrial activity. Last week (May 6) Attorney-General George Brandis said Alister McNab had been appointed to fill the vacancy in the Melbourne registry left b...

New laws restrict strikes for EA covering more than one employer

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WFD: The Federal Government's new laws to restrict “strike first, talk later” issues have resulted in the rejection of a union's protected action ballot order (PABO) application involving a proposed single-interest employers' agreement. That was despite bargaining with the relevant workers' employer having gone on for several months. Co...

Wharfies vote down Patrick ‘final' EA offer - lockouts may begin

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WFD: Waterside workers at Patrick Stevedores Port Botany, Fremantle, Melbourne and Brisbane terminals have resoundingly voted down the company's “final” enterprise agreement (EA) offer- heightening the possibility for a lockout of workers who participate in strikes. Of the 827 (out of 911 eligible) employees who voted in the May 10 ball...

Qld Catholic schools end bargaining dispute for ‘new approach'

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WFD: Hundreds of Qld Catholic schools and teachers have suspended their long-running industrial dispute for two months to participate in the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) new approaches program (NAP). At the FWC on May 6 the Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) and Qld Catholic Education Commission (CEC) agreed Vice President Joe Catanzari...

Govt sets up post-abolition inquiry into RSRT's safe rates

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WFD: The Federal Government has requested the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman conduct a “broad” and “urgent” inquiry into the impact of the late Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT)'s safe rates order. It claimed owner-drivers were still suffering financial difficulties weeks after its abolition...

Intern scheme allows employers to take on higher pay increase: ACTU

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WFD: The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has sought to use the Federal Government's proposed new internship program to argue for a higher increase to the minimum wage. In its post-budget reply to the 2016 annual wage review filed on May 9, the union peak body said the announced Youth Jobs PaTH would improve business capacity to “abs...

Hospital strike ends but code uncertainty continues

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WFD: A major dispute that shut down Qld's Sunshine Coast University Hospital site is over after parties on Wednesday (May 10) agreed to borrow a clause from a building industry agreement to settle their differences over future compliance with the Coalition's draft building code. About 160 Nilsen Contracting employees walked off the job indefinitely...

Fels calls for franchise liability laws as 7-Eleven ends indie wage panel

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The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has blasted as “unacceptable and ludicrous” 7-Eleven's suggestion it could “fund” the agency to oversee its processing of migrant worker underpayment claims after the franchise ended its independent wages panel and brought the claims in-house. Meanwhile, the now-dumped head of the panel, Profess...

No opportunity to respond cruels ‘not a good fit' small biz sacking

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has found a worker's dismissal was harsh and unjust in part because his small business employer failed to give him an “opportunity” to respond to issues in his final warning letter. That was despite holding it was a valid reason to sack him because he was not a “good fit”. Small business telecom...

Diary

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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...

Editorial Team

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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 Product Code : 314021720085.

Underpaying cleaning businesses all repeat offenders: FWO audit finds

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One third of cleaning businesses have been caught short-changing staff in a Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) national audit , with all the underpaying employers repeat offenders. The results show little improvement in industry non-compliance levels over the past five years. The latest 2014-15 audit saw FWO inspectors recover $17k for 59 cleaners after 18 ...
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