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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

Lack of aid due to unpaid union dues no grounds for delay

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A worker has had no joy with her bid for more time to lodge an unfair dismissal application based on her argument she had needed to access her union's legal services but it knocked her back because she had unpaid dues. The NSW Industrial Relations Commission (NSWIRC) Commissioner Peter Newall accepted it may be difficult for a person who has been d...

AGL EA dispute heads to FWC conciliation and possible arbitration

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has today (May 9) terminated both the proposed Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and employer-response industrial action at AGL Loy Yang in a move the Victorian Government said would protect the state's power supply. As a result of the decision ETU and AGL said they have 21 days of enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations a...

Technological and global pressures impact jobs and wages: RBA

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Employment growth has picked up in the March quarter nationally but unemployment also “edged higher over recent months” and labour market conditions “continue to diverge across the states”, the May 5 Reserve Bank (RBA) statement on monetary policy has revealed. Examining domestic economic conditions, the RBA said “afte...

Editorial Team

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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

Employers warn full bench against over-compensating workers

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The penalty rates battleground today shifted to transitional arrangements for cuts, with a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench hearing warnings that employees should not be “over-compensated”. Employer groups argued against a prolonged delay to the penalty rates cut and dismissed union estimates of the scale of affected employees as e...

Fed Govt pins hopes on wages growth to deliver surplus

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The Federal Government is hoping a near doubling in wages growth will eventually steer the budget back to surplus as it prepares to impose extra business costs for hiring foreign workers to promote local jobs growth. In what economist Saul Eslake described as a “bit aspirational” but not “impossible”, the govt projected wage...

Budget makes winner & loses out of FW agencies

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The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) will have its total resourcing cut from $79.62m in 2016-17 to $71.93m in 2017-18 as staff numbers are forecast to increase from 137 to 155 over the same period. The ABCC budgeted for an operating loss of $1.2m for the 2017-18 financial year. Total revenues were estimated to be $32.9m, expen...

Increases to sponsor foreign workers may reduce jobs: ACCI

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The Federal Government's new foreign worker visa levy revealed in yesterday's (May 9) Budget has been slammed by both the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). ACCI director of employment Jenny Lambert told Workforce Daily the increases employers will pay to sponsor foreign workers are...

Senate releases corrupting report during Budget frenzy

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A Senate committee has taken the unusual step of tabling its report - the politically charged examination of the Fair Work Amendment (Corrupting Benefits) Bill 2017 - the day after the Budget. The Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee recommended the bill be passed and the Government consider the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) pr...

Govt has not repaired damage from previous job cuts: CPSU

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The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has condemned the decision to cut more than 1,100 jobs at the Department of Human Services (DHS). The CPSU said the Govt's plan to cut 1,188 jobs from DHS was a “disaster for our community”. Union secretary Nadine Flood said the govt has refused to repair the damage from 5,547 permanent Centr...

Court upholds ‘impracticable' reinstatement interpretation

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The absence of trust and confidence between an employer and an unfairly dismissed employee is relevant when determining if reinstatement or re-employment is impracticable, the WA Court of Appeal has found. The Appeal Court - Justices Michael Buss, Graeme Murphy and Kenneth Martin - dismissed the Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union's (RTBU) appeal agai...

Editorial Team

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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

Budget makes winner & loses out of FW agencies

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The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) will have its total resourcing cut from $79.62m in 2016-17 to $71.93m in 2017-18 as staff numbers are forecast to increase from 137 to 155 over the same period. The ABCC budgeted for an operating loss of $1.2m for the 2017-18 financial year. Total revenues were estimated to be $32.9m, expen...

TWU sharpens knife ahead of FWC showdown with Emirates offshoot

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The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) aims to thwart a new enterprise agreement (EA) an Emirates group subsidiary has proposed by arguing it fails the better off overall test (BOOT) at a Fair Work Commission hearing in Melbourne on Monday (May 15). The TWU claimed in a statement to the FWC that Airport Handling Services Australia (AHSA), operated by E...

CFMEU big brass penalised for unlawful blockade

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Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary Dave Noonan and seven other officials have today (May 11) been penalised $277,000 for unlawful blockades of the Perth Children's Hospital project in 2013, the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) has said. It said the Federal Court found CFMEU organised one prote...

Fed Court dismisses ‘irregularities' claim in union election

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In a decision examining union elections, the ability of state bodies to support federal election candidates and a possible loophole in the registered organisations legislation, an ex-nurse and union industrial officer has lost his Federal Court bid for an inquiry into an Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) election. Justice Antony Si...

Senate supports corruption bill with exemptions

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A Senate committee has supported a raft of exemptions in its report into the Fair Work Amendment (Corrupting Benefits) Bill 2017 to avoid capturing benefits such as free meals, small gifts and invitations to functions ( WF 11/5/17 ) The Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee recommended the bill be passed and the Federal Government c...

FWC slams ‘callous, almost beyond belief', employer

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has said human resources (HR) should rename itself human relations because employees are not resources but human beings who “can be easily damaged, and when faulty they should be handled with more care than machines”. Commissioner Ian Cambridge's strong words came after he found Komatsu Forklift Australia ...

Injunction prevents scientist from using own invention

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The SA Supreme Court has issued interlocutory injunctions preventing a scientist from commercialising technology he jointly invented at one company now that he has gone into business with new partners. Justice Kevin Nicholson said he was satisfied (but without finally deciding) there was evidence Patrick Glynn was breaching the intellectual propert...
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