In a strongly-worded decision, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered BlueScope Steel Port Kembla to resume consultations with maintenance employees over proposed job changes after finding its consultations had been neither “genuine” nor “fair”. The company proposal would require maintenance workers to perform grade thre...
BlueScope workers ‘surplus to requirement' after FWC consultation
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FWC to hand down weekend penalty rates decn tomorrow
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has today revealed it will deliver its much-anticipated decision on weekend penalty rates in retail, hospitality and fast-food industries tomorrow morning. President Justice Iain Ross advised today that the five-member full bench he heads will hand down its decision at 11am at the FWC's Melbourne office. The FWC has c...
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Record low wages continue: ABS
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data reveals annual wage growth, as measured by the seasonally adjusted wage price index (WPI), rose 1.9% through the year to December 2016. “This result equals the record low wages” of the September 2016 quarter, which had been the lowest level since it began publishing wages data in 199...
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No reinstatement as union role not immunity for vendetta
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission has found a courier company unfairly withdrew work from a contract driver, but would have eventually ditched him after he blamed the company for the death of one of its drivers. Commissioner John Murphy found Victor Hammond was denied procedural fairness over a March 2016 incident in which he allegedly shoute...
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$4m Optus damages verdict set aside
Optus Administration Pty Ltd did not owe a duty of care to a former call centre trainee who sustained personal injury and mental harm in an attempt on his life by another trainee at Optus's premises, the NSW Appeal Court has found. In their February 17 reasons, Justices John Basten and Clifton Hoeben set aside Supreme Court Justice Stephen Campbell...
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Editorial Team
Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, annie.lawson@tr.com Chief Journalist: Gerard May Journalist: Steve Andrew Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Nearly a million workers have wages slashed in ‘dangerous precedent'
Sunday and public holiday penalty rates will be cut across the retail, hospitality, restaurant, fast food and pharmacy sectors in a controversial ruling that will slash the wages of nearly a million workers ( WF 22/2/2017 ). A five-member Fair Work Commission (FWC) bench, headed by President Justice Iain Ross, handed down the 551-page decision at 1...
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Employers welcome decision, while unions furious
Australian employer groups have welcomed today's Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision to slash penalty rates - while the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has called for parliament to change industrial laws to protect almost one million workers' pay. Hospitality, restaurant, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers will have their Sunday penal...
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FWC rejects penalty rate boost to rail industry modern award
The Fair Work Commission's four-yearly review of the Rail Industry Award 2010 has rejected pushes by unions to improve Saturday penalty rates and employers to change the Level 9 Clerical, Administrative and Professional Classification. The Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union and the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Service...
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Wage growth has ‘reached a trough': RBA
Employment has been increasing moderately and in the past few months it has been for full-time jobs - but there is uncertainty regarding the direction of both jobs and wages, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's February meeting “Growth in wages and household income were expected to increase gradually” but “...
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FWC rejects penalty rate boost to rail industry modern award
WFD: The Fair Work Commission's four-yearly review of the Rail Industry Award 2010 has rejected pushes by unions to improve Saturday penalty rates and employers to change the Level 9 Clerical, Administrative and Professional Classification. The Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union and the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Se...
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FWC to hand down weekend penalty rates decision Thursday
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) on Wednesday revealed it would deliver its much-anticipated decision on weekend penalty rates in retail, hospitality and fast-food industries the following morning. President Justice Iain Ross advised that the five-member full bench he heads would hand down its decision at 11am at the FWC's Melbourne office. The ...
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BlueScope workers ‘surplus to requirement' after FWC consultation
WFD: In a strongly-worded decision, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered BlueScope Steel Port Kembla to resume consultations with maintenance employees over proposed job changes after finding its consultations had been neither “genuine” nor “fair”. The company proposal would require maintenance workers to perform grade...
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Record low wages continue: ABS
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data reveals annual wage growth, as measured by the seasonally adjusted wage price index (WPI), rose 1.9% through the year to December 2016. “This result equals the record low wages” of the September 2016 quarter, which had been the lowest level since it began publishing wages data in 199...
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No reinstatement as union role not immunity for vendetta
WFD: The NSW Industrial Relations Commission has found a courier company unfairly withdrew work from a contract driver, but would have eventually ditched him after he blamed the company for the death of one of its drivers. Commissioner John Murphy found Victor Hammond was denied procedural fairness over a March 2016 incident in which he allegedly s...
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Regional USG Boral site looks to strike to match city cousins' pay
WFD: The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has lodged a protected action ballot order (PABO) for strike action at USG Boral Building Products Pty Ltd's after the company refused its wage claim. On February 20, CFMEU lodged a PABO at the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for 10 full-time workers at the USG Boral Hamilton, Victoria cornice p...
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$4m Optus damages verdict set aside
WFD: Optus Administration Pty Ltd, as occupier, did not owe a duty of care to a former call centre trainee who sustained personal injury and mental harm in an attempt on his life by another trainee at Optus's premises, the NSW Appeal Court has found. In their February 17 reasons, Justices John Basten and Clifton Hoeben set aside Supreme Court Justi...
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Health and wellbeing days for Maurice Blackburn staff
WFD: Staff at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers will be entitled to three health and wellbeing days a year under a new enterprise agreement (EA) the Fair Work Commission (FWC) approved yesterday. Employees took protected industrial action last year after EA negotiations stalled, which the Australia Services Union (ASU) credited for helping secure a raft of...
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Worker unfairly dismissed for ‘horrific' Facebook post gets $2k
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has awarded a long-serving employee with no history of misconduct compensation of more than $2,000 despite finding his dismissal was harsh. Commissioner Michelle Bissett awarded former Bendigo Health Care Group employee Michael Renton just $2,014.89 for making little effort to find alternative employment since hi...
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