WFD: The Fair Work Commission has pushed back a hearing into an enterprise agreement (EA) proposed by an Emirates Group subsidiary that two unions oppose ( WF 04/04/17 ) . Deputy President Anne Gooley delayed the hearing originally scheduled for tomorrow (April 6) until May 15 during a mention hearing today. Parties involved in the EA matter are th...
Emirates subsidiary EA hearing delayed
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McCormick workers prepare for another round of rolling stoppages
WFD: McCormick Foods Australia workers are preparing for another round of work stoppages after negotiations over a new wages deal remained deadlocked ( WF 31/03/17 ) . National Union of Workers (NUW) members will hold rolling four-hour strike action at the company's Clayton South and Moorabbin Airport facilities from 12pm tomorrow (April 6). The un...
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TWU claims Emirates subsidiary agreement fails the BOOT
WFD: The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) has claimed a draft enterprise agreement (EA) voted up by two employees at an Emirates baggage handling subsidiary in Australia fails the better off overall test (BOOT) for stripping conditions and allowances from workers. Airport Handling Services Australia (AHSA) operated by Emirates Group ground handling c...
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Regulator welcomes Calombaris company move to repay workers
WFD: Australia's workplace watchdog has said it “welcomes the steps” MAdE Establishment has taken to rectify underpayments to its staff following an “administrative bungle” that left workers $2.6m out of pocket. The company that celebrity chef George Calombaris founded incorrectly paid more than one third of his staff member...
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NSW Govt appoints first chief cmr
WFD: The NSW Government has revealed today senior counsel Peter Kite has been appointed as the state's first chief commissioner of the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC). A spokesperson for NSW IR minister Dominic Perrottet confirmed Kite's new role to Workforce Daily . His appointment was part of an overhaul that saw the Industrial Court abolis...
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UV hails shift penalty win for guards
WFD: United Voice (UV) has rejoiced blocking a major security company from what the union sees as “cutting” an “essential” part of their employees' take-home pay worth “thousands of dollars each year”. On March 29, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ordered Wilson Security Pty Ltd could not stop applying 20% afternoo...
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Cash expects construction code compliance after employer ban
WFD: Hutchinson Builders says it is in "two minds" about whether to appeal against federal employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash's decision to ban the firm from Commonwealth-funded work for three months. Cash imposed the ban for alleged failure to comply with Building Code 2013 (BC13). She told Workforce Daily "the Australian Government expect...
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Long-term manager fairly fired for damaging email remarks: FWC
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a manager who sent a “highly offensive” email to her company's clients was fairly dismissed despite never being warned for misconduct. Senior Deputy President (SDP) Jonathan Hamberger found Cosmetic Suppliers Pty Ltd key accounts manager Georgia Sologinkin was fairly dismissed because her em...
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Employers, unions divided over youth unemployment panacea
WFD: Unions and the Labor Party have attacked the Federal Government's much touted $752m paid internship program that launched today for fear it will displace paid jobs and exploit young people. At the same time, peak employer groups have backed the program aimed at equipping 120,000 job seekers with the skills needed to secure paid work. In a join...
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Campaign finds compliance lapses with apprentices
WFD: One in three businesses failed to pay apprentices their correct wages, a Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) audit has revealed. The audit of 2,266 apprentices in 822 businesses in the two years to June 2016 showed 264 businesses (32%) had failed to pay their apprentices correctly and 178 businesses (22%) breached record-keeping and payslip requirements...
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Director who called FW communists fined for not complying with order
WFD: The Federal Circuit court (FCC) has fined an engineering company and one of its directors more than $25,000 after it ignored a Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) order to compensate a worker the company had unfairly dismissed. In 2015, FWO ordered Monochromatic Engineering Pty Ltd t/a MCE Lasers, to pay Iranian and 457 worker Jahangir Farzady $27,124 p...
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Bench decides severity of flight attendant's conduct not outweighed
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has found a Qantas Airways Ltd flight attendant was not unfairly dismissed after rehearing the appeal matter and determining it on the papers. It follows the same bench in January overturning Deputy President Jeff Lawrence's decision that had awarded more than $33k to flight attendant David Dawson. The l...
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Fair Work Act should regulate transparent EA elections: union
The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) has called for an end to privately run enterprise agreement (EA) ballots after Australian Election Company (Aust Elect) said it couldn't give the union final results from one ballot. Aust Elect told AMWU it couldn't provide the ballot's results because, unlike the employer McCain Food Australia, th...
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Medium-term target off the table
A Fair Work Commission expert panel has found a more “flexible” medium wage target for the national minimum wage (NMW) would not serve any “useful or appropriate purpose”, in a preliminary hearing decision ( WF 28/10/16 ). The panel - including President Justice Iain Ross, Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Ingrid...
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Candidate not wanted ‘under any circumstances' - fails to prove bias
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has quashed a psychologist's appeal against a decision that found an employer's process for hiring candidates complied with the relevant enterprise agreement (EA). The bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Val Gostencnik and Commissioner Michelle Bissett - dismissed Blair Heading's appeal beca...
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Workforce participation tipped to fall
“Tentative” evidence that workforce participation had declined under the WorkChoices regime suggests the cuts to penalty rates will similarly discourage people from working Sundays and public holidays, an economist has warned. Market Economics managing director Stephen Koukoulas told Workforce WorkChoices introduced by the Howard govern...
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‘Ambushed' MUA takes Patrick to FWC: union
A dispute is threatening the industrial peace between Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Stevedores, the union has said. MUA has taken Patrick to Fair Work Commission (FWC) conciliation today (April 10), arguing the company contravened the enterprise agreement (EA) and award by not consulting it when the stevedore opened a non-union cont...
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FWC's maiden interim order prevents sacking in bullying matter
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has handed down its first interim order preventing a TAFE institute from dismissing its executive director to enable her to proceed with a bullying matter against her employer. Commissioner Peter Hampton granted Lynette Bayly an interim order preventing the Bendigo Kangan Institute, trading as Bendigo TAFE, Kangan Ins...
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