Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411 Chief Journalist: Gerard May Journalist: Bernadette McBride Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Qantas & TWU applaud new ground services EA
Qantas and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) have welcomed a new enterprise agreement (EA), endorsed by 96% of voting Qantas Ground Service (QGS) workers, that includes increased superannuation, paid domestic violence leave and 32 new full-time positions. The EA covers 1,500 part-time workers and comprises a 5% immediate pay increase, a $2,500 sign...
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Workers put another dent in Fed Govt's bargaining policy
The defence department is the latest federal agency to vote against a draft enterprise agreement (EA) under the Federal Government's bargaining policy. The proposed EA offered defence staff a 6% pay increase over three years, consisting of 3% in the first year, 2% in the second and 1% in the final year. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) ...
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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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FSU says Allianz members are close to a new enterprise agreement
WFD: 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 cutt...
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Employer breached FWA when it stood down workers
WFD: 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 worke...
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A third of workers miss out on $3.6bn in super
WFD: 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 ...
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Annual leave, late pay penalties and pay on termination to be revamped
WFD: 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...
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Agreement protects employer from worker's confidential data breach
WFD: 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 info...
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Worker was sacked 7-days before ‘outer limits' contract ended: FWC
WFD: 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 ...
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Ex-AMIEU VP election bid moves to mediation
WFD: 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 fr...
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FWC orders Esso and unions to conciliation and strikes to cease
WFD: 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 ...
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CUB big blue over as workers win jobs back
WFD: 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)...
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7-Eleven commits to ongoing scrutiny in comprehensive deed
WFD: 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 yest...
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Metro worker fairly sacked after falsifying mobile phone records
WFD: 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...
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Ross reject's Cash's bid for full bench hearing on Metcher RoE
WFD: 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. Thi...
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It's not adverse action to request apology for union grievance claim
WFD: 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 Mona...
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Rulings should be based on latest information: Full bench
WFD: 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 Australia...
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Editorial Team
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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Federal staffers EA fails BOOT and many denied vote, unions say
The United Services Union (USU) and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have lodged applications against the parliamentary staffers enterprise agreement (EA), arguing it wasn't properly voted up and the CPSU saying it fails the better off overall test (BOOT). Employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash has told Workforce she will fight the ...
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