WFD:Negotiations for a new enterprise agreement (EA) covering Virgin Group staff have progressed, but still have a “long way to go”, the Australian Services Union (ASU) has said. In an April 20 meeting with Virgin management the union said the company had agreed to increase paid family violence leave from five to 10 days a year. Virgin ...
Virgin EA talks inch closer to deal
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Union wants to put BOOT to Aerocare EA
WFD: The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) is laying the groundwork for a possible challenge to a new agreement Aerocare employees supported last week with it examining whether it failed the better off overall test (BOOT). A TWU spokesperson told Workforce Daily the union had requested further information about the company's enterprise agreement (EA) ...
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Ross seeks views on Watson's unfinished business
WFD: The departure of former vice president Graeme Watson from the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has thrown the fate of 10 outstanding matters into doubt. President Justice Iain Ross last week released a statement inviting submissions from parties by May 5 about their plans on how best to proceed with the matters. He requested feedback on whether the ...
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‘Zombie' agreements would not pass BOOT: union
WFD: Employers are maintaining old enterprise agreements (EA) to pay “significantly inferior” penalty rates and allowances than relevant awards,United Voice (UV) has told the Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work (FW) Act ( WF 16/3/2017 ). The union said “Zombie” agreements - old WorkChoices and Australian...
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Ged Kearney resigns from skilled migration council
WFD: Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president Ged Kearney has resigned as a member of the Federal Government's Ministerial Advisory Council for Skilled Migration (MACSM) in response to the govt's plan to axe the 457 visa scheme. Kearney said in a statement she quit the council after the govt revealed plans to create two new classes of sk...
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Registered organisations regulator begins next month
WFD: The new Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) will begin operations on May 1 and its new powers will take effect the next day, the Fair Work Commission has said . Last week, employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash announced that former Australian Securities and Investments Commission SA commissioner Mark Bielecki would begin a five-year...
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Final member of NSW IRC appointed
Barrister Jane Seymour will join the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission as the state government fulfils its promise to appoint five members to the tribunal. NSW IR minister Dominic Perrottet said Seymour's appointment takes effect on May 15. Seymour, who replaces Anne Tabbaa, has clocked up more than two decades in IR, employment and d...
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Unions gain access to Esso's Bass Strait financial documents
WFD: Unions have been partly successful in seeking profit and loss records from Esso and ExxonMobil in their ongoing dispute over a proposed new enterprise agreement covering offshore oil and gas workers ( WF 27/1/2017 ). The unions - the Australian Workers Union (AWU); Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU); and Communications, Electrical,...
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Refugees win underpayment claim in Federal Court
WFD: The Federal Court has found an ACT cleaning company and its director contravened s50 of the Fair Work Act for failing to pay workers their ordinary rate of pay for their usual hours worked during school holidays. Justice Jayne Jagot found Phillip Cleaning Service Pty Ltd (PCS) and its director Angelo Di Dio did not pay part-time employees duri...
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UV challenges penalty rates decn
WFD: United Voice (UV) has claimed the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) decision to cut public holiday and weekend penalty rates was tainted by jurisdictional error. In a submission in reply to the FWC on the transitional rates issue, the union alleged the FWC decision failed to, or failed to properly, take into account relative living standards and th...
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CFMEU wins appeal over mining EA dispute
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld a Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) appeal against a decision approving an enterprise agreement (EA) the union argued contained unlawful terms and breached public holiday provisions. The full bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Val Gostencnik and Commissioner Michelle Bi...
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Ex-employee forced to resign from rival company in restraint matter
The Western Australian Supreme Court has ordered a former sales director be restrained from working for a US maritime company's Australian competitor after it accused its ex-worker of stealing confidential information. The court restrained Dr Steven Vidakovic from being employed or directly and indirectly engaged with Perth-based Veem or any relate...
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Patrick, MUA blue in court and cmn
Patrick Stevedores has warned the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is putting its members at risk of heavy fines after the union organised illegal industrial action that costs the stevedore $500,000 a day. MUA and Patrick are in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) today (April 28) in dispute over the action, the company told Workforce . The stevedore s...
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Time FWC ended ‘institutional trust' of employers and unions: RAFFWU
Retail and fast food workers lose more than $300m each year under Shop Distributive Allied Employees Union (SDA) enterprise agreements (EA) than if they were paid under the relevant award, the Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act has heard. The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), which is scheduled to appear before ...
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Coles' enforceable undertaking is turning culture around: FWO
The working conditions of trolley collectors at Coles Supermarkets Australia have improved, according to the company's second annual report into its enforceable undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsmen (FWO).In October 2014, FWO announced Coles entered into an EU with it to ensure trolley collection contractors in its supply chain provided equ...
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Eight weeks' pay for health worker who stored and sent porn at work
A health worker sacked for storing and sending pornographic emails at work has been awarded eight weeks' pay for her “harsh” dismissal. The NSW Industrial Relations Commission heard Jodie Bellenger worked for Mid North Coast Local Health District without incident for 13 years, most recently as assistant to the district mental health ser...
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Coles' enforceable undertaking is turning culture around: FWO
The working conditions of trolley collectors at Coles Supermarkets Australia have improved, according to the company's second annual report into its enforceable undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsmen (FWO).In October 2014, FWO announced Coles entered into an EU with it to ensure trolley collection contractors in its supply chain provided equ...
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Unions NSW secures win for gig economy workers
Airtasker has described an agreement to ensure workers on its online platform are lawfully paid as a “positive step” that will help the company's future sustainability. Airtasker CEO Timothy Fung told Workforce Daily a deal with Unions NSW to also give workers access to injury protection insurance and dispute resolution services helped ...
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