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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 : 314021720185.

Arrium administrator rejects AWU pay cut proposal ahead of talks

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The administrator at South Australia's Arrium OneWhyalla steelworks has made its hundreds of workers a final offer of 12% pay cuts after rejecting the union's pay reduction deal offer. Workforce Daily understands that last Wednesday (July 20) administrator KordaMetha Restructuring Group rejected the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) pay cut offer of ...

QBE employee accused of conflict of interest must pay costs

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An insurance worker sacked for refusing to participate in a financial crimes investigation has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after continuing to pursue an unfair dismissal claim despite “compelling” evidence against him. In October 2015 QBE customer service officer Khoder Abdulrahim had bought a discount motor vehicle insurance po...

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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

ACT legislates crackdown on public servants' free speech

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The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government has introduced legislation to crack down on how its employees conduct themselves on social media outside work hours. The Public Sector Management Amendment Bill 2016, introduced on June 8, is set to be debated in the ACT Assembly when it next sits in early August. The Bill outlaws social media comme...

Browsing ‘top swimsuit styles' valid reason for dismissal

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A financial controller who was warned for accessing pornographic websites at work and then summarily dismissed for allegedly visiting a swimsuit site has been awarded $25k in unfair dismissal compensation. Fair Work Commissioner Bruce Williams held Auto Classic (WA) Pty Ltd t/a Westcoast BMW's sacking of Gerard Roelofs for visiting the ‘fashi...

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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

AGL Loy Yang EA blue keeps wages and conditions up in the air

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Loy Yang power station workers could see their wages cut after AGL lodged an application to terminate their enterprise agreement (EA) in the middle of bargaining. AGL Loy Yang general manager Steve Rieniets said the company had “no choice” but to apply to terminate the EA as unions have “refused” to negotiate more “mod...

Full Court test case as NERR errors threaten non-union EAs

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Unions are seeking to use technical errors in bargaining notices, including incorrect websites and words, to overturn major non-union agreements in the transport and retail industries. The challenges are set to come to a head in a Federal Full Court test case that could determine whether replacing the word ‘employer' with ‘leader' is en...

ACCC raids CFMEU ACT as looks to expand ‘anti-competitive' remit

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The Aust Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has raided the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union's (CFMEU) Canberra headquarters in what appears to be an investigation into alleged price-fixing activity by the union. The CFMEU confirmed the ACCC executed a search warrant yesterday morning seeking documents in relation to the Competition...

AFP seizure of CFMEU Qld hard drive and file server lawful

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The Federal Court has upheld the lawfulness of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) raid of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Qld offices last year, clearing a path for the police taskforce to examine the union's databases for evidence of deleted files. Justice John Reeves last Friday (July 27) did find the AFP acted unreasonably...

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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

Turnbull knocks back joint submission offer on penalty rates

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused Labor's request to do a “joint submission” to the Fair Work Commission review on penalty rates and has told opposition leader Bill Shorten he has “no plans” to change the way penalty rates are set. On July 15, Shorten sent Turnbull a letter proposing they co-author a submission to ...

Hearing set for min wage ‘targets'

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has released a draft timetable to consider United Voice's (UV) bid for medium-term targets for the national minimum wage, with a hearing proposed for October. UV proposed in this year's minimum wage review that the FWC wage panel set a five-year target for the minimum wage to improve relativities with median earnings ...

Firies union endorses EA - but ‘strongly' opposes equal op review

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Vic United Firefighters Union (UFU) members have “unanimously” supported in principle both the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) proposed enterprise agreements (EA). However, the vote appears premature as the CFA told Workforce Daily it still hasn't endorsed its EA, with negotiations still continuing. The ...

CFMEU ‘threats' after 90 workers quit union after Gorgon Gas deal

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The Fair Work Building and Construction Commission (FWBC) is taking a construction union official to court for allegedly abusing and threatening workers at Chevron's Gorgon Gas LNG project who were said to have quit the union the day after it won a landmark agreement on “family friendly” rosters. Construction Forestry Mining Energy Unio...

Visa worker exploitation endemic in Melbourne restaurants

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Some 90% of international student workers (ISW) and working holiday makers (WHM) in Melbourne's cafe and restaurant sector are underpaid and almost 100% suffer some form of exploitation, a new study has found. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology senior researcher Dr lain Campbell revealed the figures at a labour migration workshop last week (Ju...

Having a ‘dig' at the boss post-dismissal can't justify sacking

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found an employee's critical observations about his employer via an online pseudonym after being terminated could not be taken into account to justify his sacking. Senior Deputy President Matthew O'Callaghan found Marmota Energy Limited's retrenching of senior project geologist Daniel Gray was “sound” ...

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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

NUW continuing ‘unlawful' pickets despite order: Coles

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Coles Supermarkets has accused the National Union of Workers (NUW) of engaging in “unlawful conduct” causing “millions of dollars” of damage by allegedly continuing picket lines at its Vic distribution centres despite a Supreme Court injunction. The Coles Truganina distribution centre, operated by Polar Fresh, closed down ye...
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