Employers have failed to pay nearly a third of workers at least $3.6bn in superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions in 2013-14, new research has revealed. Pay-as-you-go employees and those misclassified as contractors were short-changed at least $2.8bn and cash economy workers missed out on $800m in 2013-14, the analysis showed. The results come ...
A third of workers miss out on $3.6bn in super
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CFMEU protests ‘40%' wage cuts by mining labour hire company
Some 400 Illawarra coal miners, local residents, union members and state MPs rallied last Thursday (December 1) to protest wage cuts of 30-40% over the past two years by labour hire company Matermyne, according to the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). CFMEU mining & energy division south-west district vice-president Bob Timbs t...
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Agreement protects employer from worker's confidential data breach
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has dismissed a worker's claim she was unfairly fired for taking confidential information home after finding she had intended to use it outside of the company. Commissioner David Gregory found small business CMIB Insurance Services P/L account executive Shayne Finemore was fairly dismissed for sending client informati...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Bernadette McBride, Emily Haworth. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Annual leave, late pay penalties and pay on termination to be revamped
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench is preparing draft determinations scrapping award clauses that entitle workers to shift allowances and annual leave loadings while on annual leave and late payment penalties for wages paid via electronic funds transfer (EFT), as part of the 4 yearly review of modern awards. It proposed a default term for paym...
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Worker was sacked 7-days before ‘outer limits' contract ended: FWC
An employee told not to work for the last week of his contract due to performance failings has won the right to claim unfair dismissal even though his employer paid him up until the contract ended. His employer unsuccessfully argued before the Fair Work Commission his contract had simply ended due to the passage of time. The decision examined the c...
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Ex-AMIEU VP election bid moves to mediation
The Federal Court has ordered the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) and its former vice president and organiser Jim Hickey to go to mediation over his bid to have his membership reinstated. Hickey wants to challenge for NSW branch secretary at AMIEU's May election but claims the union cancelled his membership to prevent him from ru...
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Editorial Team
Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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FSU and Allianz appear close to agreement
The on-again and off-again Finance Sector Union (FSU) and Allianz Australia enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations appear back on track after the union withdrew a December 5 media release that was critical of the company. Workforce Daily contacted both parties after FSU claimed in its release that Allianz was taking a proposed EA severely cutting c...
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CUB big blue over as workers win jobs back
The 188-day strike of the sacked 55 Carlton and United Brewery (CUB) workers has ended after new company owner AB InBev, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) agreed to reinstate all workers. ETU secretary Troy Gray told Workforce Daily the workers will move to a new union enterprise agreement (EA) that...
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7-Eleven commits to ongoing scrutiny in comprehensive deed
7-Eleven has signed a landmark deed with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) that commits it to introducing a comprehensive range of workplace compliance measures - including surveillance and data-gathering traditionally seen as intrusive by employees but which target franchisees. The 30-page Proactive Compliance Deed - which the parties signed yesterday...
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Ross reject's Cash's bid for full bench hearing on Metcher RoE
Fair Work Commission President Justice Iain Ross has rejected employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash's application for a full bench hearing into controversial union leader Jim Metcher's fitness to hold a right of entry (RoE) permit ( WF 24/11/16 ). The President said he was not satisfied a full bench hearing was in the public interest. This was...
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Metro worker fairly sacked after falsifying mobile phone records
A Metro Trains track employee was fairly sacked for falsifying mobile phone records after he left work early before a drug and alcohol (D&A) test was performed on site, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found. Metro fired employee Joseph Sleiman for “purposely” leaving the work site to avoid the D&A testing, failing to let his ...
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Editorial Team
Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Bernadette McBride. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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FWC orders Esso and unions to conciliation and strikes to cease
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has on press day ordered bargaining to stop and unions not to follow through with threatened strike action at ExxonMobil Australia gas facilities. Australian Workers Union Vic branch secretary Ben Davis told Workforce Daily Vice President Graeme Watson ordered the strikes to cease and 21 days of FWC conciliation to co...
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7-Eleven commits to ongoing scrutiny in comprehensive deed
7-Eleven has signed a landmark deed with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) that commits it to introducing a comprehensive range of workplace compliance measures - including surveillance and data-gathering traditionally seen as intrusive by employees but which target franchisees. The 30-page Proactive Compliance Deed - which the parties signed yesterday...
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Metro worker fairly sacked after falsifying mobile phone records
A Metro Trains track employee was fairly sacked for falsifying mobile phone records after he left work early before a drug and alcohol (D&A) test was performed on site, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found. Metro fired employee Joseph Sleiman for “purposely” leaving the work site to avoid the D&A testing, failing to let his ...
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Federal Court claim against Cash and Heerey report tossed out
An industrial advocate has had her Federal Court claim against employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash tossed out after she alleged a report into ex-Fair Work Commission (FWC) Vice President Michael Lawler that referenced a complaint she lodged against him denied her procedural fairness. Jane Carrigan's action against Cash and ex Federal Court j...
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It's not adverse action to request apology for union grievance claim
The Federal Court has found an employer did not commit adverse action against an Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) delegate despite finding a clinical nurse educator told a mass meeting the union should apologise for a grievance letter the delegate wrote on behalf of its members. Justice Christopher Jessup rejected former Monash He...
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Rulings should be based on latest information: Full bench
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has quashed a majority support finding that was based on a ballot result rather than latest information before the tribunal. The bench upheld Kantfield Pty Ltd's appeal against Commissioner John Ryan's September ruling that a majority of the company's manufacturing employees, represented by the Australian Wor...
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