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UV and CFMEU set to ramp up action at brewer

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The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and United Voice (UV) Victorian branches have warned beer maker Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) that if contractor Programmed does not reinstate the 55 picketing maintenance workers they will “escalate action”. Yesterday about 200 CFMEU and UV members at the CUB Abbotsford plant h...

Patrick workers to vote on in-principle EA

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Patrick workers are expected to vote up a new enterprise agreement in a ballot planned for next week, ending a 12-month deadlock between the company and the Maritime Union of Australia. A spokesperson for a new co-owner of Patrick, Qube, confirmed to Workforce an in-principle agreement would go to a vote in the “next week or two”, after...

Death of debate at ACTU congress: Academic

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A leading industrial relations academic who has researched and attended every Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU) Congress since 1979 says they are no longer the place for “robust” union discussion. Professor Ed Davis tolda Monash University Business School and Industrial Relations Society of Victoria conference yesterday (August 2...

Bandt keeps IR

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Adam Bandt has kept responsibility for employment and workplace relations in yesterday's Greens Party portfolio reallocation . He gained climate change and energy alongside science, research & innovation while Peter Whish-Wilson has Treasury.

MEAA accused of handing out cocaine at Walkley awards

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The media union has said it will “take appropriate steps” if one of its people was the unionist who allegedly offered BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano cocaine at last year's (December 3, 2016) Walkley awards at Crown Casino. Australian political news media website Crikey (pay walled) has reported today that at the awards after ...

Employer threats to terminate EAs rising since Griffin decision: unions

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Employers are increasingly threatening to go to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to terminate enterprise agreements (EA) since a full bench upheld a decision to terminate the Griffin Coal Mining Company Pty Ltd'sEA, unions say. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Western Australia Branch (AMWU) secretary Steve McCartney told Workforce Daily th...

Britax workers end strike after FWC retraining and redundancy wins

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The Australian Workers Union Vic branch (AWU) says the striking BritaxChildcare Pty Ltdemployees have returned to work after getting retraining and redundancy wins at the Fair Work Commission (FWC). The workers had been in breach of a FWC order to cease industrial action since August 16 ( WF 26/8/2016 ). AWU secretary Ben Davis told Workforce Daily...

Vic unions turn to online petition site to support campaigns

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The Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) is claiming wide support for a new online tool that allows quick and easy generation of petitions in support of industrial and political campaigns. The VTHC-developed Megaphone web platform has been used by more than 80,000 people in just six months of operation, the union body says. VTHC Industrial and Camp...

Employer knew of risk from worker's long hours

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An employer breached its duty of care by failing to act on a manager's complaints of excessive workload, stress and long hours, the Supreme Court of Victoria has found. Finding the risk of psychiatric illness from such a breach was “reasonably foreseeable”, the court said it would hold a further hearing into causation and damages. Josep...

Editorial Team

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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411. Journalist: Steve Andrew . Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Court alerts ASIC and ATO in phoenixing case

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A Sydney cleaning company was “calculated” in shamelessly exploiting its vulnerable workforce, and “inept” in its attempts to avoid legal consequences, a Federal Court judge has said. In a complex civil matter in which the employer blatantly disregarded its obligations, evidence emerged that some employees had been threatene...

‘Scabby the rat' off to ‘wave good bye' to CUB contractor

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The Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) picketers are today taking “Scabby the Rat” to the offices of the contractor who replaced them to “wave goodbye” after it announced yesterday they have terminated their contract and will leave CUB. Programmed said in a release to the ASX that the “key driver” for leaving CUB...

Unions' history of animosity sees FWC grant EA scope separation

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has granted the Australian Workers Union (AWU) a scope order request for three enterprise agreements (EA) instead of a single one on a site with a “long history” of “animosity” between it and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). Commissioner Susan Booth said this was an “...

ALP national secretary leaves Shorten for senior BHP role

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Australian Labor Party (ALP) national secretary George Wright has resigned today after more than five years to work for BHP Billiton Petroleum. Wright said after two federal election campaigns, two ALP national conferences, and numerous by-elections it wanted to spend more time with his family in Melbourne and seek new challenges and opportunities....

Editorial Team

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Editor: AnnieLawson (03) 9286 1411. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

High Court hands down ‘most significant' MUA decision ever

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The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has said today's High Court unanimous finding the Federal Government's 2015 migration changes enabling broad use of foreign workers on less pay and conditions than Australians was invalid is the “most significant decision” in the union's history. The High Court - Chief Justice Robert French and Just...

No evidence of Rio Tinto remorse or insight into its wrong doing: Judge

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Federal Court Justice John Reeves has slammed Rio Tinto mine Hail Creek Coal Pty Ltd (HCC) and its mine manager and ordered it to pay $50k in penalties after it stood down an injured worker shortly after he was awarded a $630k damages claim in the District Court (DC). Justice Reeves noted HCC then spent two years fighting Michael Haylett's claim, d...

Govt introduces IR bills as Hanson heads to talk to CFA volunteers

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today introduced the Fair Work Amendment (Respect for Emergency Services Volunteers) Bill 2016 ( CFA ), the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 ( ABCC ), and the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 ( RO ) during parliaments first sitting day today since the c...

Seven months' unpaid ‘home leave' not termination: VSC

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Being marched out of the work premises, told to go home on leave and then suspended without pay is not necessarily a “termination” of employment, the Vic Supreme Court has found. In the case of a former accountant ordered out of an office in April 2013, termination only occurred seven months later when the worker formally accepted AMR H...

UP to review franchisee pay arrangements

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United Petroleum (UP) has agreed to meet with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) to discuss ways to ensure workers at its franchisee petrol stations are paid properly, the FWO reports. Random FWO audits of 11 UP petrol stations found six were breaching workplace laws, including underpaying staff by thousands of dollars. In two cases, the underpaid emplo...
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