WFD: The amalgamation between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) looks like to depend on a members' vote taking place in the first three months of 2017. MUA assistant secretary Will Tracy told Workforce Daily that MUA annual general meetings are currently taking place around the country. ...
MUA-CFMEU amalgamation no sure thing as it goes to members' vote
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TURC evidence can be used at unfair dismissal hearing
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has dismissed an ex-union organiser's bid to have his evidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) excluded from his unfair dismissal hearing. Deputy President Lyndall Dean dismissed a claim by Nick Belan, brother of ex-National Union of Workers' NSW Branch (NUW) secretary Derrick, his TURC evidence could ...
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ABCC passes in the Senate - CFMEU vows to continue fight
WFD: Employer groups are championing the Coalition government's win following the Australian Building and Constriction Commission (ABCC) Bill's passage in the Senate on Wednesday (November 30). The Senate passed the amendment bill 36-33after the Federal Government negotiated the final crossbench support it needed from the Xenophon Team. Senator Nic...
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Full bench grants union appeal after missing email botches EA approval
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has granted United Voice (UV) and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) permission to appeal a decision approving an enterprise agreement (EA) after a missing email denied the CPSU procedural fairness. The bench - FWC President Justice Iain Ross, Deputy President John Kovacic and Commissioner Tim ...
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22% rise in industrial disputes driven by construction: ABS
WFD: The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed there were 63 more industrial disputes in the year ending September 2016 compared to the same time last year. Dispute numbers rose by a third in the September quarter compared to the June quarter, the ABS said. During the September quarter, there were 93 disputes and 34,900 working days lo...
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Four years between building code's release and enforcement
WFD: Wednesday's Senate vote giving the construction sector two years to make its enterprise agreements (EAs) compliant with the Coalition government's building code has left a group of builders highly exposed. But it has given the majority with union deals - particularly in Victoria - a period of stability they have been lobbying for. More than 15...
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Sunday penalty rate impact somewhere ‘between extremes'
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates could line retailers' pockets “at one extreme” or translate into better service and lower prices at the other, a Citi Research executive has predicted. Citi Research managing director and consumer sector research head Craig Woolford told Workforce Daily his resear...
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Cruel and hardline: APS bargaining policy under attack
WFD: A Labor and Greens-dominated Senate committee has recommended a raft of changes to the federal public sector bargaining framework, maintaining it is “not only cruel and heartless” but an “abject failure” in facilitating and concluding bargaining. Dissenting Coalition senators, however, have rejected the majority's findi...
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Workers face the chopping block at Anglo American
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruling has given Anglo American the green light to sack 82 of its workers at German Creek coal mine in Queensland following a dispute with the Construction Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) over labour hire workers. Deputy President Ingrid Asbury dismissed a CFMEU application seeking either the reinstatement of workers m...
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Senior firefighter's ‘forced' firing fails to win him more time to file
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has rejected a Melbourne Fire Brigade (MFB) commander's application for an extension to file his general protections claim relating to his dismissal despite his claiming he had been forced to resign. Deputy President Lyndall Dean rejected Commander Brian Turner's claim his tardiness was due to incorrect advice fr...
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Cash says TURC recommendations next on Coalition govt agenda
The Federal Government is expected to move on recommendations from last year's trade union royal commission (TURC) capitalising on the goodwill generated from the passage of industrial relations bills aimed at tightening union accountability ( WF 22/1/2016 , WF 30/11/2016 ). Employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash told a mining industry business...
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Vic Govt turns to FWC to stop Esso-union war and gas shortage
The Victorian Government has applied to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to stop union-proposed strikes at ExxonMobil Australia's offshore and onshore gas facilities because they could have a “damaging” impact on the state. In a bid to resolve deadlocked enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations three unions - the Australian Workers Union (A...
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Full bench orders suicidal worker to pay former employer legal costs
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has ordered a nurse to pay her former employer $5,000 in legal costs despite her threatening to “end her life” if it did so. The bench - Deputy Presidents Peter Sams and Val Gostencnik and Commissioner Tony Saunders - ordered Robin Hansen to pay Calvary Health Care Adelaide Limited's legal costs...
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Australia's smaller states suffer soaring under-employment
Underemployment and unemployment have soared above national average levels in Australia's four smaller states including Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, new analysis from Roy Morgan Research has revealed. The country's largest states fared better after underemployment and unemployment fell 2.1% to 15.2% in New South Wale...
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Metcher argues no public interest in full bench hearing
Disgraced union leader Jim Metcher has told a Fair Work Commission (FWC) directions hearing there was no public interest in a full bench examining his right-of-entry (RoE) application after it had been withdrawn. FWC president Justice Iain Ross held a directions hearing on Wednesday (November 29) after the Federal Government pressed for a full benc...
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HR manager sacked for taking file loses appeal bid
A human resources (HR) manager sacked for taking her personal HR file home with her and refusing to return it has lost her challenge to a Fair Work Commission finding that her dismissal was fair ( WF 19/9/2016 ). A full bench refused Inessa Barkhazen permission to appeal against Commissioner Ian Cambrige's September rejection of her unfair dismissa...
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Industrial relations laws pass in Qld
Paid domestic violence leave, an Easter Sunday public holiday and the resurrection of public sector employee collective bargaining are among the key features of an industrial relations bill that passed Queensland's parliament this week. The passage of the Industrial Relations Bill 2016 coincides with the Federal Government IR reform bills that made...
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PSA slams govt use of 457 visas
The Public Service Association has called for an inquiry into the NSW Government filling 32 full-time IT jobs with 457 temporary visa holders. NSW finance minister Dominic Perrottet confirmed the appointments sa aprt of a response to a supplementary question to an estimates committee hearing. The workers were assisting with the introduction of the ...
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Employer breached FWA when it stood down workers
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found that an employer had been wrong to use the Fair Work Act s524 stand down provisions in circumstances where its enterprise agreement (EA) prevented it from retrenching them. Commissioner Ian Cambridge has ordered Bristow Helicopters Australia Pty Ltd to withdraw its stand down orders and pay eleven workers lo...
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