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Employee over first hurdle in multiple adverse action claim

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WFD: An employee who claimed her employer restricted her duties and suspended her because she made workplace complaints and lodged a workers' compensation claim has got over the first hurdle in an adverse action case. Federal Circuit Court Judge Nicholas Manousaridis found Kelley Marree Chapman had reasonable prospects of succeeding in her claims u...

Rally deemed industrial, but not all attendees breached workplace laws

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WFD: The Federal Court has found an unauthorised rally for construction workers the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) organised did have an “industrial character”. However, it dismissed the building watchdog's action against more than 30 workers out of the 101 identified after deciding they were not covered by one of the...

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

Building code will compromise EA talks, safety & productivity

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WFD: The Federal Government's proposed building code contained in its Bill before parliament aimed at toughening up the construction industry watchdog will undermine worker safety and productivity, a new report has warned. The McKell Institute report , Unfounded and Unfair: An analysis of the building and construction code, cautioned the code restr...

NUW claims 10 day EA strike ‘victory' at Caltex

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National Union of Workers (NUW) members have ended a 10-day strike at Caltex lubricant and motor oils manufacturing plant in Lytton, Queensland, claiming it delivered them enterprise agreement (EA) victory. The deal will see them take home slightly less per week, but work - and be paid for - fewer hours. NUW industrial officer Dario Mujkic told Wor...

PC attacks Fed Govt for IR inertia

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The Productivity Commission (PC) has intensified criticism of the Federal Government for dragging its feet in responding to its 2015 recommendations on workplace relations reform. On press day PC chairman Peter Harris said he had heard consultation on the report continued, but it came with a “nudge and a wink that suggests not a lot should be...

Success for FWO, as court fines head franchisor

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The Federal Court has penalised the master franchisor of a frozen yoghurt chain for the underpayment of four visa workers by one of its outlets. The penalties, handed down this week, are the first the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has secured against a master franchisor for being an accessory to workplace breaches by an associated company. Justice Geof...

FWO pushes legal boundaries

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The Fair Work Ombudsman has praised the Federal Government's reforms to toughen laws to protect vulnerable workers, but at the same time the agency had “pushed the boundaries of existing law”. FWO Natalie James told delegates at the Australian Labour Law Association National conference in Melbourne the agency “leverage(d) laws acr...

Labour costs to rise: RBA

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The Reserve Bank expects the growth in labour costs to rise slightly, while underemployment is on the increase leaving “spare capacity in the labour market”, it said in a statement on monetary policy released on press day. “Wage growth appears to have stabilised, albeit at a low level,” it said, largely due to the decline in...

Scare campaign renders contractor driver regulatory reform ‘elusive'

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Much of the confusion and uncertainty that earlier this year killed off the road safety tribunal had been “manufactured by others” and rendered elusive regulatory reform for contractor drivers, a senior Fair Work Commission (FWC) member has said. FWC Deputy President Jennifer Acton told delegates at the Australian Labour Law Association...

FWC full bench to arbitrate on DIBP pay dispute

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A majority of Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) staff have for the third time voted against a pay deal under the Federal Government's public sector bargaining policy, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has revealed. Some 84% of eligible staff voted in the ballot, with 82% of them voting down the draft enterprise agree...

Bosses based in Aust didn't let OS worker claim unfair dismissal

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a worker operating as a “one man band” in Singapore - but who was trained, took daily instruction, and was fired from Australia - is unable to claim unfair dismissal. Senior Deputy President Jonathon Hamberger dismissed Tung Fai Choi's application thatACT Education Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (AE...

CFMEU fails in High Court bid

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The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) is preparing to appeal to a Full Federal Court after the High Court found the union's jurisdictional error complaint was “untenable” over a right-of-entry (RoE) dispute at three Adelaide construction sites. Justice Geoffrey Nettle refused the union's bid to withdraw admissions five C...

FWC full bench upholds reinstating anti-Muslim, homophobic worker

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A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench majority decision to uphold the reinstatement of a worker who made a range of homophobic and anti-Muslim comments was not the decision a “rational person could reach”, a dissenting commissioner has said. The bench allowed Mt Arthur Coal's appeal because it raised a novel question on whether deroga...

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

Scare campaign renders contractor driver regulatory reform ‘elusive'

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Much of the confusion and uncertainty that earlier this year killed off the road safety tribunal had been “manufactured by others” and rendered elusive regulatory reform for contractor drivers, a senior Fair Work Commission (FWC) member has said. FWC Deputy President Jennifer Acton told delegates at the Australian Labour Law Association...

Ex-AMIEU VP takes union to Federal Court for election bid

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A long time NSW Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) officer is taking the union to the Federal Court to fight against it cancelling his membership. Ex-NSW AMIEU vice president, delegate and organiser Jim Hickey has told Workforce Daily his move to have his membership reinstated was so he can run for election in May 2017. Hickey claim...

ETU accuses FWBC of ideological attack

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The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) will test the construction industry watchdog's power to review enterprise agreements (EA) in what the union describes as a landmark Federal Court matter. The ETU claimed the Fair Work Building Construction (FWBC) abused its power when it rejected a valid EA on the grounds it breached the 2013 building code. ETU's u...

The path to litigation paved with euphemistic EAs

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Litigation was inevitable in circumstances where enterprise agreements (EA) rely on euphemisms to conceal divisions among parties, a senior judge has cautioned. The Federal Court's Justice Christopher Jessup told the Australian Labour Law Association conference in Melbourne last week (November 5) EAs could benefit from a “greater awareness, o...

Academic says ‘monumental' UK Uber decision will happen in Oz

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A leading Australian workplace relations academic has said a test case similar to the “monumental” United Kingdom (UK) verdict that found major ‘gig-economy' player Uber should treat workers as employees and not independent contractors will happen soon in Australia. Late last month, Workforce Daily's international news associate R...
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