The Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work (FW) Act has heard the Act needs to change to stop sham collective bargaining of enterprise agreements (EA). At today's Victorian Parliament House hearing, the National Union of Workers (NUW) claimed workers at Oxford Cold Storage in Laverton North, Victoria had been part of a “sche...
NUW calls for Fair Work Act change to stop sham collective bargaining
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Sally McManus elected ACTU secretary
Campaigning for a reversal of the decision to slash weekend and public holiday penalty rates and tackling corporate power are high on the agenda for Sally McManus, who today was elected unopposed as the 10th secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU). McManus, who was an ACTU vice president, becomes the first women to fill the role, ...
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Employers striking a ‘remarkable' number of ‘CUB style' EAs
Unions have today told the Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act at Victoria's Parliament House that there is a “remarkable” amount of “CUB style” enterprise agreements (EA) being signed up as companies are using anti-collective bargaining tactics. Maintenance workers at Carlton and United Breweries' (...
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Ichthys contract dispute claims 800 workers' jobs
A contract dispute between construction giant Laing O'Rourke and joint venture partner Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has today claimed the scalps of 800 workers from the $50bn Ichthys LNG Tanks project in Darwin. The two companies had been building four cryogenic LNG tanks under a contract signed in 2012 for engineering consortium JKC Australia L...
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Protected action at grain terminal could cost clients $100k a day
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has approved a protected action ballot that could lead to costly disruptions at one of Australia's largest grain handling terminals, after the cmn rejected claims workers were not negotiating in good faith. Co-Operative Bulk Handling Limited, trading as CBH Group, argued the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) breached ...
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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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The ACTU strikes back
Having stirred the pot over the issue of unlawful industrial action during an interview on ABC's 7.30 Report last night, Sally McManus today responded to government and employer condemnation via a statement denouncing “rampant lawlessness” that had become a “business model for some corporations” requiring legislative reform ...
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Terminating EAs is power imbalance when answer should be arbitration
There is “merit” in the default for enterprise bargaining breakdown to be Fair Work Commission (FWC) arbitration, the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) has told the Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act. The legislation's intent had not been for employers that were unhappy with bargaining to be able to terminate EAs...
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Sacked Ichthys workers protest as dispute moves to FWC
Sacked workers on the trouble-plagued Ichthys LNG project today staged a picket outside lead contractor JKC Australia LNG's Darwin offices as unions filed a Fair Work Commission (FWC) application alleging workplace agreement breaches. A contract dispute between construction giant Laing O'Rourke and joint venture partner Kawasaki Heavy Industries (K...
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Underemployment ‘at historic high' and rising
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed “the underemployment rate is still at a historically high level for Australia, but has been relatively unchanged over the past two years”. Trend monthly hours worked increased by 1.2 million hours (0.1%), “with increases in total hours worked by both full-time workers and part...
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Union ‘hopeful' Parmalat lockout will end tomorrow
The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) will attempt to end its enterprise agreement (EA) dispute with Parmalat Dairy at Fair Work Commission (FWC) conciliation tomorrow (March 17), the union says. Parmalat has locked out more than 60 workers from its processing plant in Echuca, Victoria since January 18 in response to their industrial a...
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New WA IR minister replaces his wife
Western Australian Labor Premier Mark McGowan has announced today that former Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) official Bill Johnston is the newly elected government's industrial relations (IR) minister. In his 2008 first speech to parliament, Johnston said he had fond memories of the nine years at the SDA and good wins in w...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, annie.lawson@tr.com Chief Journalist: Gerard May Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Former RSRT head joins Monash University
Fair Work Commission Senior Deputy President Jennifer Acton has today revealed her appointment as a law professor at Monash University. SDP Acton said in a statement the adjunct appointment will “involve her in innovative research, teaching and mentoring activities” in the university's Faculty of Law. She “was looking forward to c...
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Cmr gives reasons why no bias in his conciliation so can hear matter
WFD: In a rare decision the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has set out reasons for rejecting arguments why a commissioner who conducted conciliation should not recuse himself from upcoming arbitration on a bullying order application. Commissioner Peter Hampton decided he would not recuse himself from the substantive hearing because there was no basis t...
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Train employee's Fiji trip and underworld claims end in sacking
WFD: A NSW Trains customer service officer who accused a platform manager of corruption and associating with infamous nightclub owner John Ibrahim has lost his unfair dismissal claim after he was sacked following an unauthorised trip to Fiji and making false underworld allegations against managers. Mohammed Ayub, who worked as a customer service te...
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Full Court upholds precedent setting RoE decision
WFD: The Federal Full Court has upheld a precedent setting Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench decision that confirmed unions have the right to meet workers where they ordinarily take meal breaks. The Full Court - Justice Chris Jessup, Richard Tracey and John Reeves - dismissed a BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) related company's claims that the FWC...
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Business coalition calls for apprenticeship funding
WFD: An employer group coalition has urged the Federal Government to fund a national partnership agreement to arrest the slump in apprentice and trainee numbers. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Industry Group and the Business Council of Australia called for the govt to maintain its $1.75bn over the next five years to...
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NUW loses stay claim in Nick Belan matter
WFD: The National Union of Workers (NUW) has lost an appeal against a Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision refusing its adjournment application after former NUW NSW secretary Derrick Belan gave evidence in an unfair dismissal matter involving his brother Nick. The NUW NSW sacked Nick Belan after he admitted unauthorised credit card use at the Trade ...
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Medical review direction lawful
WFD: A Federal Full Court has dismissed a boilermaker's appeal against a decision tossing out his unfair dismissal claim for failing to attend a medical appointment to assess his fitness for work after a shoulder injury. The Full Court - Justices John Dowsett, Michael Barker and Daryl Rangiah - upheld Justice Berna Collier's decision dismissing Dar...
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