A veteran Boral Resources (NSW) Pty Ltd contractor truck driver sacked after a verbal argument with a work colleague turned physical has failed to have his contract reinstated on grounds he was bullied. Richard Hendrie operating as MRA Transport Pty Ltd claimed he was exposed to a "two-year history of unaddressed bullying" at Boral's St Peters depo...
NSW IRC rejects contractor's argument he was bullied
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, 0422 567 004, annie.lawson@tr.com Chief Journalist: Gerard May Journalist: Steve Andrew Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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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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Aerocare EA to be voted on over Easter
Aerocare has hit back at union claims its proposed enterprise agreement (EA) did not pass the better off overall test (BOOT) and was confident the proposal to be voted on from Saturday (April 15) was likely to succeed ( WF 7/4/17 ). The company also slammed Transport Workers' Union (TWU) claims it enlisted an industrial relations consultancy to dra...
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CFMEU fails to block WorkPac ballot of coal industry labour hire workers
The Fair Work Commission has tossed out a Qld Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union mining & energy division (CFMEU) application to block WorkPac's ballot of labour hire workers it employed in the coal industry. The employer ballot will now go ahead on April 10, after floods in Brisbane delayed the original one. The CFMEU argued WorkPac bre...
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Manager gets $1k fine for obstructing union
The Federal Circuit Court has fined a manager $1,000 for preventing a Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) official exercising right-of-entry (RoE) to speak to a worker over a suspected safety breach. Judge Michael Jarrett found Hudson Square Project Site project manager Peter Zardo contravened s502 of the Fair Work Act (FW Act) when h...
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BOOT undertaking requires enforceable entitlement: bench
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has quashed the approval of the Beechworth Bakery Employee enterprise agreement (EA) because an undertaking made to address concerns it did not pass the better off overall test (BOOT) was “erroneous”. The bench agreed with Shop Distributive Allied Employees Union (SDA) the undertaking did not crea...
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Worker ‘effective inconvenience' to break DHS deadlock
Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) members are about to unleash two full weeks of strikes at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in a push to end the three year enterprise agreement stalemate with the Federal Government, the union has warned. Strikes will be longer than others held to date - with the exception of April 13 which will be an 8 ho...
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Family violence workforce census launches
Employees in industries aimed at curbing family violence will participate in a survey to better understand the challenges they face, the Victorian Government has said. The census, open until May 5, will inform the govt's first family violence industry plan to be unveiled in December 2017. It follows the Royal Commission into Family Violence, which ...
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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, 0422 567 004, annie.lawson@tr.com Chief Journalist: Gerard May Journalist: Steve Andrew Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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McManus reveals number one workplace law priority
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus has told striking Fletcher Insulation workers the peak body will demand changes to the Fair Work (FW) Act to stop employers threatening to cancel enterprise agreements (EA) during bargaining. Speaking at the Fletcher picket on April 6, McManus said unions had to continue defeating em...
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Uber drivers step up protest against low pay
More than 1,200 Uber drivers took part in a protest on Monday (April 10) over concerns about work conditions, triggering surges in driver demand across Melbourne, a driver association has claimed. RideShare Drivers United (RSDU) believed the log-off protest created shortages during morning and afternoon peak periods and was the third strike staged ...
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Airport firefighter not unfairly sacked for posting video at work
The Fair Work Commission has refused to reinstate a Melbourne Airport firefighter sacked after he posted a video online showing him pretending to play music during a fire alarm. While acknowledging Paul Baird was now unlikely to find employment as a firefighter, Deputy President Anne Gooley said the sacking was not disproportionate or harsh. “...
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Poll supports call for employers not to cut Easter penalty rates: union
The majority of Australians support maintaining penalty rates for people working over Easter, a national ReachTel poll conducted for United Voice (UV) has revealed. Some 61% of Australians strongly opposed (43%) or opposed (18%) cutting the penalty rates of hospitality and retail workers working across the Easter period, the poll found. UV national...
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CFMEU's ‘cavalier disregard' for law results in huge fines
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and 10 of its officials have been penalised $590,800 for taking unprotected industrial action at multiple construction sites. Federal Court Justice Christopher Jessup penalised the CFMEU for breaching s417 of the Fair Work Act by organising industrial action during the term of an enterprise agre...
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Unions cop fines answering members' calls over work dispute
The Federal Court has found the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), Australian Workers' Union (AWU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) and their organisers did not instigate unlawful industrial action at a Victorian paper mill despite imposing penalties of more than $100,000. Justice Christopher Jessup found the &...
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CBH not required to inform MUA about employing 11 casuals
Co-Operative Bulk Handling Limited (CBH) was not required to notify the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) when it engaged 11 casual plant operators at the CBH Kwinana grain terminal during the harvest season, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled. Tossing out the union's application for a dispute order, Commissioner Bruce Williams found the casu...
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Editorial Team
Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, 0422 567 004, annie.lawson@tr.com Chief Journalist: Gerard May Journalist: Steve Andrew Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Airport firefighter not unfairly sacked for posting video at work
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has refused to reinstate a Melbourne Airport firefighter sacked after he posted a video online showing him pretending to play music during a fire alarm. While acknowledging Paul Baird was now unlikely to find employment as a firefighter, Deputy President Anne Gooley said the sacking was not disproportionate or harsh. &...
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CBH not required to inform MUA about employing 11 casuals
WFD: Co-Operative Bulk Handling Limited (CBH) was not required to notify the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) when it engaged 11 casual plant operators at the CBH Kwinana grain terminal during the harvest season, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled. Tossing out the union's application for a dispute order, Commissioner Bruce Williams found the...
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