WFD: The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has held a 40-year full-time worker was only entitled to part-time redundancy entitlements under the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) Act because he had shifted to part-time work just months earlier to assist his employer and because of his own poor health. AAT Deputy President Stephanie Forgie found ...
‘Loyal, dedicated' 40-year full-timer ‘rewarded' with part time payout
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CFA enterprise agreement vote stopped at the Supreme Court
WFD: The Country Fire Authority has agreed to suspend the vote on its controversial enterprise agreement (EA) with the United Firefighters Union Vic (UFU) until the outcome of the Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria (VFBV) Supreme Court action is determined. The CFA board on August 12 agreed to put the EA to a vote of operational staff. The VFBV said ...
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Panel and Book Launch: Extending Working Life for Older Workers: Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice by Dr Alysia Blackham: August 24, 1pm, Centre for employment and Labour Relations Law, Melbourne Law School. More info here . The R Lessons from 4 Decades of ACTU Congresses: Change, Continuity and Power in Australia's Peak Union Council' Se...
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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
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Workers defy FWC stop strike order against ‘highly profitable' business
Manufacturing workers at Britax Childcare Pty Ltd in Victoria are defying a Fair Work Commission (FWC) order to return to work ahead of their union attending the FWC to try and resolve the dispute with the company tomorrow (August 23). The Australian Workers Union Victorian branch (AWU), which represents the majority of the striking workers, says t...
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Worker cautioned for lodging bullying complaint
The Fair Work Commission has tossed out a bullying complaint by a welfare worker against her manager, finding the worker - not the manager - should have been cautioned for failing to follow reasonable directions. Xiaoli Cao claimed she was bullied at work by her manager, Rita Wilkinson. Cao was employed by Metro Assist Inc since 2008 as a tenants a...
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Digitisation, and 'fissuring', presents IR practitioners new challenges
The rise of the “virtual global worker” is posing a significant challenge for industrial relations practitioners, with labour increasingly controlled through a confusing maze of small, third-party businesses, the latest Corrs workplace midyear review has warned. Newer digital forms of engaging labour, such as freelancing and peer-to-pee...
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Journalist: Steve Andrew. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Volunteers to gain more EA rights than unions, employers, workers
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today (August 22) released the promised draft bill to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 which he has said was necessary to “protect” Country Fire Authority (CFA) and similar volunteer organisations from “union takeover”. Turnbull said the legislation was so important the Coalition Government wo...
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CFMEU take FWBC boss to court for RoE breach; FWBC claims prejudice
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has commenced Federal Court proceedings against the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate (FWBC) director Nigel Hadgkiss for allegedly disseminating “false” right of entry (RoE) information to industry participants. However, those proceedings have now been caught up in a fight ove...
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Ford supplier hit with protected action ballot
Two months out from Ford's closure, vehicle industry unions are struggling to make headway in enterprise bargaining with the company's downstream suppliers. In the latest developments, workers covered by the National Union of Workers (NUW) are set to join Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) colleagues in a protected action ballot at Bendi...
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‘Managerial' nature of work a factor in refusing unfair dismissal
The Fair Work Commission has found the “managerial” nature of an employee's work a factor in refusing him unfair dismissal protection. Andrew Forkes sought relief against Amristar Solutions Pty Ltd after he was terminated in 2016. The cmn heard Forkes was employed exclusively in the UK working on software development during his three ye...
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Journalist: Steve Andrew. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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‘Tens of thousands' of public servants to strike over anniversary
“Tens of thousands” of Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members will strike on September 9 for 24 hours to mark that its bargaining dispute with the Federal Government has reached 1,000 days. The CPSU says members from agencies including Medicare, Centrelink, Child Support, the Australian Tax Office, Department of Defence, Agric...
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Host employer not wanting labour hire worker is like ‘loss of licence'
In an important decision clarifying how unfair dismissal considerations operate when a labour hire firm sacks a worker when a host employer doesn't want them, a Fair Work Commission full bench has likened the ability to work for the host as “akin to ... a form of licence essential to his capacity to work”. The bench therefore found a la...
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Drug tester who drove away from her own drug test wins almost $30k
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has awarded a worker who did Corrections Victoria pre-employment drug tests almost $30k after finding her employer unfairly fired her after she drove away when the company tried to drug test her. Commissioner Michelle Bissett held Specialist Diagnostic Services Pty Ltd t/as Dorevitch Pathology unfairly sacked collecti...
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$3,900 comp for sacked 77-year-old school bus driver
A 77-year-old school bus driver sacked for alleged misidentification of a disruptive passenger was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. Ordering $3,900 compensation in lieu of reinstatement, Senior Deputy President Peter Richards said dismissal was unwarranted for what was a minor incident. The cmn heard Knight Bus Services (KBS)...
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FWC delays DP World push for wharfies to do mooring work
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has won a temporary Fair Work Commission (FWC) order prohibiting DP World Australia in Melbourne from requiring wharfies to dolinesman mooring work until its next September 26 FWC hearing. The MUA says if DP World succeeds in getting wharfies to do the work it would destroy “scores” of jobs for line...
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30,000 council workers free to negotiate new pay terms
Thirty thousand Queensland council workers will be free to negotiate new pay deals from next month, with the expected release of a new modern award. The August 31 deadline for the release of the Qld Local Government Industry Award - which amalgamates 18 separate awards and affects 77 councils - was in doubt due to a last-minute challenge by the Loc...
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