The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has nominated a return to individual bargaining and more “pro-employment” awards as businesses' priorities for this federal election. The IR changes ACCI is proposing are a lot more moderate than its long-standing policy goals, which include reducing awards to a set of industry wage...
Business prioritises less award prescription, individual bargaining
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Talks ‘positive' for Catholic schools under FWC's ‘new approach'
The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) and Queensland Catholic Education (QCE) are set to consider draft agreement provisions next Monday following “positive” talks under the Fair Work Commission's “new approaches” program. The parties suspended their long-running industrial battle earlier this month to participa...
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Full Court limits broad restrictions on protected action after breach
WFD: A Full Federal Court has rejected argument that all industrial action ceases to be protected for an indefinite period once it is established workers breached a stop order, ruling the protection is only lost for the period in which the order applied. However, a court majority upheld findings that such industrial action, stripped of its protecti...
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Business prioritises less award prescription, individual bargaining
WFD: The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has nominated a return to individual bargaining and more “pro-employment” awards as businesses' priorities for this federal election. The IR changes ACCI is proposing are a lot more moderate than its long-standing policy goals, which include reducing awards to a set of industry...
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Cleaner unfairly sacked while seeing ‘dying mother
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a part-time cleaner who was sacked while visiting her “critically ill” mother overseas was fired for a valid reason but that the dismissal was ultimately harsh. Deputy President John Kovacic found Rose Cleaning Service (RCS)had a valid reason to fire cleanerRyva Llauder-Caddy because she was...
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ACTU leader declares TURC a failure; unions still have standing
WFD: Unions have survived the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) with their reputation not just intact but improved, Aust Council of Trade Union (ACTU) secretary Dave Oliver has argued. But the union movement cannot be complacent as it faces a new challenge with the rise of digital disruption threatening not only traditional notions of work but th...
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Employer wrong to bar redundancy, leaving workers to watch TV
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered Essential Energy to accept voluntary redundancy (VR) applications after finding its decision to keep on two redundant employees for two years despite there being no real work for them was “absurd and “ridiculous” and so not a valid exercise of managerial prerogative. However, FWC kno...
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Talks ‘positive' for Catholic schools under FWC's ‘new approach'
WFD: The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) and Queensland Catholic Education (QCE) are set to consider draft agreement provisions next Monday following “positive” talks under the Fair Work Commission's “new approaches” program. The parties suspended their long-running industrial battle earlier this month to part...
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FWC upholds broad employer power to direct workers to train labour hire
WFD: The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has lost its claim that Qantas catering employees cannot be directed to train labour hire contractors to do the same work they do after arguing it would be “unsafe” and go beyond their employment duties. Fair Work Commission VicePresident Graeme Watson held that QCatering Limited could require its ...
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FWBC drops action against CFMEU leader amid claims case ‘political'
WFD: The building industry watchdog has dropped its legal action against the head of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) after backing away from claims the leader participated in allegedly unlawful industrial action. The Fair Work Building and Construction Commission (FWBC) had in February named Michael O'Connor and most of the CF...
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Worker ordered to pay almost $14k for refusing settlement offer
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered an unrepresented worker to pay almost $14k in legal costs because even though he was not a “seasoned negotiator” it was “straightforward” for him to know his unfair dismissal claim would be unsuccessful when he refused $3k to settle. Commissioner Bruce Williams ordered construc...
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FWC orders termination of Essential Energy strikes - at union's request
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has terminated all protected industrial action at NSW's Essential Energy in a rare case that saw the union arguing for the cmn to stop its own planned 80-hour strike so as to trigger compulsory arbitration mechanisms. After some 18 months of stalled enterprise agreement (EA) talks, Senior Deputy President Jonatha...
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Concerns over insubordination reasonable but not enough for sack
WFD: A 457 visa worker fired for “insubordination” when he refused to attend a toolbox meeting because of a “headache” has been awarded more than $8k in compensation for unfair dismissal. Senior Deputy President Peter Richards found East Coast Bullbars (ECB) metal polisher Edwin De Sola engaged in “a public display of ...
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FWC orders $50k payout for unfair sacking over ‘unusual' work hours
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has ordered a Qld motorcycle dealership to pay its sacked business manager more than $50k in unfair dismissal compensation, despite concerns over what he was doing when he entered the premises on weekends and in the middle of the night. Senior Deputy President Peter Richards found Morgan & Wacker Harley Davidson (M...
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CFMEU Vic members back MUA merger - and industry EA
WFD A mass meeting of over ,4,500 Construction Forestry Energy Mining Union (CFMEU) Vic branch members has on Wednesday (May 25) unanimously voted to support a merger with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and accept an in-principle enterprise agreement (EA) with major contractors (WF 20/05/16). The CFMEU said the in-principle construction indu...
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FWC looking at online resolution model for unfair dismissal
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) is set to target ways to make unfair dismissal claims more efficient, including considering a new online dispute resolution mechanism to encourage settlements. Speaking at the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association (ALERA) national conference this morning, President Justice Iain Ross said over the next...
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‘Suspicious stare' not bullying: FWC
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has rejected a worker's application for a stop bullying order, finding incidents like a colleague giving her a “suspicious stare” were not covered by the anti-bullying jurisdiction. Commissioner Danny Cloghan found Western Australian Yura Yungi Aboriginal Medical Service (YYAMS) receptionist Miranda Jane G...
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Email exchanges don't justify dismissal: FWC
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held that the “punishment did not fit the crime” in reinstating a senior nurse sacked over email exchanges her employer claimed were “disparaging, sarcastic and derogatory” towards her colleagues. Commissioner David Gregory agreed the emails between Calvary Health Care Tasmania Limited clin...
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Federal Court to decide if CPSU Vic challenger for secretary is a member
The Federal Court inquiry into whether Jim Reid can challenge Karen Batt for secretary of theCommunity and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Vic branch has been adjourned following an order for more information into whether or not Reid is a member of the union. Justice Christopher Jessup has to decide whether Batt will face her first election challenge in...
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