The Communication Workers Union (CWU) will meet with Telstra on Monday (August 27) in an 11th-hour bid to stem job cuts at the company's call centres. Some 651 jobs face the chop as Telstra shifts jobs to the Philippines. CWU National divisional president Len Cooper told Workforce the union would present a “range of options” at Monday's...
CWU and Telstra to meet in 11th hour bid to limit job cuts
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FWA seeks new faces
The “expressions-of-interest (EoI)” process for people wanting to serve as Fair Work Australia commissioners or deputy presidents has generated “significant interest”, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) has confirmed. The dept was unwilling to comment to Workforce on names, numbers or who...
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New High Court judge
Stephen Gageler has been appointed a Justice of the High Court of Australia. It follows the retirement of Justice William Gummow, who will step down in October. Gageler has served as the Commonwealth Solicitor General since September 2008.
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ACTU backs anti-racism campaign
The ACTU has thrown its weight behind a campaign to stamp out racism in the workplace. ACTU president Ged Kearney has called on union members to join the Australian Human Rights Commission's awareness-raising National Anti-Racism Strategy - ‘Racism. It Stops With Me' - by signing up here .
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Diary
FWA new litigation policy information sessions: August 23, Sydney. See website . Asbestos Summit 2: September 4, Menzies Hotel, Sydney. WR minister Bill Shorten to speak. Organised by the ACTU. Queensland IR Society 'women in IR' 2012 networking event : October 19, Royal on the Park, Alice St, Brisbane. 11 th Workforce Conference: November 16, Melb...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalists: Steve Andrew, Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718355. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Diary
ACTU Asbestos Summit 2: September 4, Menzies Hotel, Sydney. WR minister Bill Shorten to speak. ACTU OHS/Workers Compensation Conference : September 5-6, The Menzies, Sydney. Australian Mines and Minerals Association Tasmania Conference: September 7, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart. Happiness, Health & Wellbeing @ Work Conference: September 14, Q...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718365. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Ex-ALP and union leaders proposed to manage HSU during elections
WFD: The Federal Government and the Health Services Union (HSU) have nominated two prominent former union leaders as assistant administrators to the demerged HSUeast branches during upcoming union elections. Former Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) national president Brian Daley would work on the NSW union while ex-Health and Commun...
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Fed Court allows 'restricted' industrial action at Bluescope
WFD: On Tuesday (August 28), Federal Court Justice Nye Perram ruled he would seek to issue orders that allow the Australian Workers Union to take protected industrial action at Bluescope's Port Kembla plant, but with restrictions. Justice Perram's proposed interlocutory orders would prevent the AWU from taking stoppages that exceed four hours and e...
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NSW and Qld public servants rally against govt cuts
WFD: Public servants in NSW and Queensland are rallying in protest over cuts to their jobs and conditions. In NSW, up to 80,000 government employees will stop work on October 8 in protest over an application by the NSW Govt to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission seeking to change 98 awards ( full story, see today's WFNSW ). The Qld Council of U...
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PM calls for clearer framework for APS bargaining
WFD: A clearer framework is needed for federal public service bargaining, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) leaders meeting in Sydney. Speaking on Tuesday night (August 28), Gillard told delegates last year's bargaining round had exposed the need for a "clearer bargaining framework" and "more pre-bar...
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Ex-union leaders become HSU assistant administrators
As Workforce foreshadowed earlier this week, the Federal Court has appointed former union leaders Brian Daley and James [Jim] Simmonds as assistant administrators to the demerged HSUeast branches during upcoming union elections. The pair will assist Health Services Union administrator retired Federal Court judge Michael Moore. Daley, a former natio...
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Govt will intervene if Grocon dispute spirals out of control: Shorten
Workplace relations minister Bill Shorten has delivered a warning to the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU): the Federal Government will intervene if the nine-day Grocon dispute snowballs into a state-wide campaign. “State-wide industrial action would put this into the jurisdiction of the Federal Government,” a spokespers...
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Gatto backs John Setka to be PM
WFD: Yesterday, Workforce reported Grocon had declined to respond to comments attributed to former underworld figure Mick Gatto who is a friend and associate of controversial CFMEU Vic branch assistant secretary John Setka. Setka has been a central figure in the Grocon dispute, and has a lengthy criminal record dating back to the 1980s. Gatto's eme...
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Three to join FWA
Fair Work Australia (FWA) is expected to appoint at least three new faces in the next 12 months, Workforce understands ( WF18355 ) . The Fair Work Act 2009 provides FWA members hold office until they reach 65 years of age or resign. An FWA spokesperson told Workforce Senior Deputy President Les Kaufman and Commissioners Greg Harrison and Michael Ga...
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Questions over redundancy process
Union say they will continue to monitor a voluntary redundancy process at Queensland Rail National (QRN), after Fair Work Australia partly upheld their earlier complaints it lacked transparency. In a joint action earlier this year, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) took the company first to the ...
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No legs in rate hike speculation
Federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh has dismissed talk of a further increase in the Federal Government's “efficiency dividend” on govt departments. The Australian Financial Review this morning reported MPs were contemplating the increase to better balance the govt's books. However, both Leigh, whose seat of Fraser takes in a large slab of Fed...
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Lifeguards left high and dry
Queensland Industrial Relations Commission will next month decide whether Sunshine Coast Council breached consultation clauses in an enterprise agreement when it voted to contract out its beach lifeguard services. Australian Workers Union organiser Wally Boulton, who is handling the matter for 108 council lifeguards, claimed Sunshine Coast made its...
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Omission of super fund from RT&DA award an ‘error': full bench
The omission of LUCRF as a named default superannuation fund in the Road Transport and Distribution (RT&D) Award was an error , a Fair Work Australia full bench has found. Overturning an earlier ruling by Commissioner John Lewin, the bench ordered the fund be included in the award. The matter was the subject of a heated demarcation issue betwee...
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