The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) says the nationwide boycott it helped organise against Carlton and United Brewery (CUB) was another step in its goal to achieve a permanent union and community campaign force. The 188-day strike of the sacked 55 CUB contract workers ended after company owner AB InBev agreed to reinstate them. Electrical...
ACTU says CUB boycott part of new campaigning model
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Domestic violence leave momentum stopped at COAG
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has on pressday (December 9) decided it will discuss paid domestic violence leave at its first meeting after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) hands down its decision on the Australia Council of Trade Unions' (ACTU) claim in early 2017. The ACTU has said this is a missed opportunity to provide paid domestic...
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Fed Court dismisses discrimination claim against subcontractor
The Federal Court has dismissed a building watchdog application against a national construction company it claimed discriminated against a subcontractor for failing to have a union-endorsed enterprise agreement (EA). The Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate (FWBII) claimed principal ADCO Constructions Pty Ltd discriminated against subcontractor...
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MUA faces court over unlawful work stoppages
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has alleged the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) organised unlawful work stoppages that resulted in nearly 100 workers walking off the job at Hutchison Ports Australia in Sydney and Brisbane last year. FWO lawyers filed Federal Court proceedings against the MUA over the week-long action that followed Hutchison sacking...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411 Chief Journalist: Gerard May Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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CFMEU-MUA-TCFUA proposed super union to go to early 2017 vote
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) have both invited members to vote in early 2017 on whether to merge with the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). MUA deputy national secretary Will Tracey told Workforce Daily its annual general meetings recently concluded and each ...
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Capcoal redundancy program during bargaining not unfair
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) bargaining order application against Anglo Coal (Capcoal Management) after the union claimed the company engaged in capricious and unfair conduct when it made redundant about 90 employees who participated in work stoppages. The CFMEU alleged Capcoal failed to...
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Worker hit with legal costs for not accepting company settlement
A worker must pay an employer $15,000 in legal costs for rejecting its settlement offers prior to losing his unfair dismissal application. Fair Work Commission (FWC) Senior Deputy President Matthew O'Callaghan agreed with Roy Hill Operations Pty Ltd that truck driver David Pauling acted unreasonably when he rejected two settlement offers prior to t...
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Employer EA termination trend moves to university
The bitter enterprise agreement (EA) dispute between the National Tertiary Education Union Western Australia branch (NTEU) and Murdoch University has taken another dramatic turn with the union claiming Murdoch has applied to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to terminate the EA. NTEU WA branch secretary Gabe Gooding told Workforce Daily if Murdoch is ...
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Spotless ordered to pay ex-CIO's costs after losing payout dispute
The Victorian Appeal Court has ordered Spotless Group Pty Ltd to pay appeal and trial costs for a chief information officer (CIO) who was last week awarded $477,400 plus interest after the court found the company ignored an oral agreement about termination entitlements. Last week, Justices Emilios Kyrou, Stephen McLeish and James Elliott overturned...
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Court rejects union bid for public holiday pay when not working
The Federal Court has dismissed a Queensland Nurses' Union (QNU) bid for nurses not rostered to work on public holidays to be nonetheless paid for them on the ground their employer required them to be available at all times. The union claimed Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd breached s116 of the Fair Work (FW) Act after it failed to pay four em...
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FWC floats PABO application changes
The Fair Work Commission has invited feedback on proposed amendments to application rules for protected action ballot orders (PABOs) aimed at streamlining its processes. It proposed amending rule 31(1) of the FWC Rules 2013 to require statutory declaration (new form F34B) to accompany the application (form F34), and the removal of rule 31(2) given ...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 9286 1411 Chief Journalist: Gerard May Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Full Court strikes out ABCC's third attempt at barring Ravbar's RoE
A Federal Full Court has dismissed an application by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) to withdraw the right-of-entry (RoE) permit of a senior Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) official. The Full Court - Justices Michael Barker, Darryl Rangiah and Michael Wigney - dismissed the ABCC's application for it to q...
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Editor: AnnieLawson (03) 9286 1411. Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Bernadette McBride. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Govt to increase penalties to protect vulnerable workers early 2017
The Federal Government has told Workforce Daily it will fulfil its pre-election promise to introduce new legislation in early 2017 that will see a tenfold increase in penalties for serious contraventions by employers who deliberately and systemically underpay workers. Currently, maximum penalties for an individual are $10,800 and $54,000 for a corp...
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NUW seek host responsibility for labour hire underpayment
The National Union of Workers (NUW) says it is taking Victorian vegetable grower Covino Farms to the Federal Court to recover $500,000 in underpaid wages said ( WF 15/5/2015 ), ( WF 5/5/2015 ) . The union claimed if successful it would be a landmark decision for making host employers responsible for labour hire firms underpaying workers. The NUW to...
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Salary cut was breach of contract but not adverse action: Court
The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) breached an organiser's employment contract when it unilaterally reduced his pay but it did not take unlawful adverse action against him, the Federal Court has found. Former Tasmanian branch organiser Darren Harpham told the court that from July 1 2009, his salary was cut from $90,724 to $77,...
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FWO takes construction company to court over adverse action claim
The Fair Work Ombudsmen (FWO) is taking a Queensland construction company and its director to the Federal Circuit Court alleging they underpaid two apprentice carpenters $32,450. The FWO says Brendan Paul Angus and his company GQ Industries Pty Ltd failed to pay the apprentices minimum entitlements under the Building and Construction General On-sit...
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Third ‘no' vote from ATO employees
Australian Tax Office employees have voted down their employer's proposed enterprise agreement (EA for a third time, in a ballot declared this afternoon. According to the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), the deal went down with a 71% “no” vote - marginally lower than the 71.5% rejection rate in the second ballot. Today's result...
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