Unions that failed to take responsibility for the damage the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) inflicted on how the public perceives them are not acting in their members' best interests, an employment law academic has said. RMIT University Professor Anthony Forsyth told the Australian Labour Law Association conference in Melbourne a lack of engag...
Unions should repair TURC damage to restore reputation
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411 Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Probe into QIRC vice president clouds unfair dismissal matter
Queensland Industrial Relations Commission Vice President Dianne Linnane has been removed from a matter involving a senior bureaucrat who commissioned an independent investigation into her conduct following allegations of bullying within the judiciary. Industrial Court (IC) President and Supreme Court Justice Glenn Martin ordered VP Linnane be remo...
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Labor proposes tightening controls on overseas temporary workers
The federal Labor Party has today unveiled a policy aimed at limiting the influx of overseas workers in Australia on 457 temporary work visas to free up jobs for the nation's 1.1 million underemployed workers and 700,000 unemployed people. The policy contains a raft of reforms aimed at tightening employer obligations for hiring overseas temporary w...
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Belan brother first to tackle admissibility of TURC evidence
Fair Work Commission (FWC) president Justice Iain Ross has knocked back an application to direct a full bench to decide whether the FWC can accept material that has come out of the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC). The issue relates to whether the FWC is a “court” for the purposes of s6DD of the Royal Commissions Act 1902. It states ...
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Lift technicians win 12% pay rise
The Communication Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) South Australian branch says 24 of its lift technician members have voted up an in-principle enterprise agreement (EA) with Otis Elevators. The union said the pay increases brings its SA members “wage justice” in line with technicians who do the same work in other states. CEPU said ...
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Woman worked for family - not pay - court finds
The Federal Circuit Court has dismissed an application for lost wages because the woman who claimed she worked 14 hours every day for six months without pay as a kitchen hand could not prove she was an employee. Judge Nick Nicholls saidHemali Prajapati sought compensation because Narshima Tradings Pty Ltd T/a Ziggy's Cafe and its manager Harihar Pr...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411 Chief Journalist: Gerard May Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Undercover investigation leads to fair dismissal
The Fair Work Commission (FWC)has found a major car manufacturer had a valid reason to fire an employee it subjected to undercover surveillance because he misled a company investigation into his conduct. Commissioner Nick Wilson also found Toyota Motor Corporation Australia fairly dismissed Altona plant team leader Daniel Wessley because he claimed...
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FWC member overlooked ‘character' of trading activity: full bench
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has upheld a trade and investment officer's appeal against a decision to toss out his anti-bullying application on the grounds his employer was not a constitutionally-covered organisation. The full bench - Deputy Presidents Val Gostencnik and John Kovacic and Commissioner Paula Spencer - rejected Cmr Jennifer...
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Annual wage growth hits new low
Annual wage growth has slowed to its lowest level since the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) began publishing wages data in 1998. The ABS figures showed the wage price index ( WPI ) rose 1.9% in the year to September 2016, after wage growth edged up 0.4% in the September quarter. Seasonally adjusted private sector wages rose 0.4% compared to 0...
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Union wins FWC order to search non-member records
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has won a Fair Work Commission (FWC) order granting it access to non-member records to investigate whether drivers are being paid the award rates they are entitled to. The TWU applied to inspect records of 23 non- members who “perform work in conjunction with arrangements entered into with” Linfox Austr...
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Sacking harsh, but telling lies prevented reinstatement: cmr
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission has found a hospital's sacking of a security guard accused of acting like a “Kings Cross bouncer” in removing an intoxicated person from the emergency department (ED) was harsh. Commissioner Inaam Tabbaa took into account the guard had breached NSW Health policy and not followed nursing staff's di...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411 . Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Award change allows part-time work for Victorian fire fighters
A Fair Work Commission full bench has overturned tradition and introduced an award clause allowing part-time employment for Victoria's public sector firefighters. The bench agreed to vary the Fire Fighting Industry Award 2010 as part of the four yearly review of modern awards, following an application by the Victorian Metropolitan Fire and Emergenc...
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Company says sub-contracts are good ahead of union inspection
Trucking company Linfox has told Workforce Daily it does not tolerate sub-contractors breaching agreements with it, after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) yesterday granted the Transport Workers Union (TWU) access to non-member records who perform work with it. The company was responding after Commissioner David Gregory granted TWU access to driver p...
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Tighter procurement provisions throw construction EAs in doubt
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has said many hundreds of companies face the prospect of being blacklisted from federally-funded projects if legislation to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) passes the Senate. CFMEU general and construction secretary Dave Noonan told Workforce Daily an estimat...
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FWO secures record high penalty against cleaning company owner
The Fair Work Ombudsman's (FWO) strategy of pursuing exploitative company directors using accessorial liability provisions has paid off, with the workplace watchdog securing its highest penalty against an individual for sham contracting breaches. The Federal Circuit Court fined Bijal Girish Sheth $126,540 and ordered him to repay overseas workers n...
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‘Large shift' to part time work in last 12 months: ABS
A shift from full-time to part-time work has fuelled a decline in trend employment in October for the first time since recordings began in November 2013, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures have revealed. The ABS said trend employment decreased by 1,000 workers in October. It said the “slight fall” reflected an increase in par...
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