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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Budget makes winner & loses out of FW agencies
WFD: 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, ...
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Increases to sponsor foreign workers may reduce jobs: ACCI
WFD: 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 worker...
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Govt has not repaired damage from previous job cuts: CPSU
WFD: 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 ...
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Senate releases corrupting report during Budget frenzy
WFD: 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 (Ai...
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AGL EA dispute heads to FWC conciliation and possible arbitration
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has on Tuesday (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) nego...
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Court upholds ‘impracticable' reinstatement interpretation
WFD: 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...
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Technological and global pressures impact jobs and wages: RBA
WFD: 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 “...
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Fed Govt faces calls for a national labour hire licensing scheme
WFD: The Federal Government is under pressure to follow in Victoria and Queensland's footsteps and introduce a labour hire licensing scheme to crack down on rogue operators. However, the Commonwealth has so far been tight-lipped on its plans while Victoria faces calls to expand its scheme announced last Friday (May 5) to mirror the Queensland Govt ...
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Sacked employee entitled to $138k despite adverse action claim failing
WFD: A “hard nut” employer did not subject a white collar worker to unlawful adverse action even though it tried to force him to take on manual labouring duties and then dismissed him when he refused, the Federal Circuit Court has found. Nevertheless, CMP Controls Pty Ltd must pay former senior buyer John Barbieri $138,498.42 in redunda...
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Vic Govt claims power strike could endanger lives, trigger black outs
WFD: The Victorian Government has claimed protected industrial action at AGL Energy's Loy Yang power stations would trigger widespread black outs, endanger lives and damage the economy. IR minister Natalie Hutchins applied for the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to terminate the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Victoria's proposed protected industrial acti...
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‘Additional remuneration' failed to float employer boat
WFD: Employer groups have withdrawn a submission to replace the phrase “penalty rates” with “additional remuneration” in the hospitality and pharmacy awards, citing a lack of peer support. The Australian Hotels Association (AHA), the Accommodation Association of Australia (AAA) and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) said ...
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Lack of aid due to unpaid union dues no grounds for delay
WFD: 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) Cmr Peter Newall accepted it may be difficult for a person who has been dismi...
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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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NSW IRC upholds sacking of cleaner working a 76-hr, 7-day week
WFD: A council parks cleaner sacked after he refused to reduce his 76-hour, seven-day working week by cutting his hours at a second job at Woolies was not unfairly dismissed, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission has ruled. Phillip Grafton argued Waverley Council had no right to question his hours, saying both full-time jobs were “low risk&...
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CFMEU chiefs put' ‘misplaced legitimacy' in minds of strikers
The Federal Court has labelled unlawful industrial action organised by Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) leadership “defiant and serious” as national secretary Dave Noonan was for the first time found to have breached workplace laws and fined. Federal Court Justice Michael Barker yesterday (May 11) penalised CFMEU nation...
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Ex-NSW premier appointed FSU asst secretary
Former NSW Labor premier Nathan Rees will replace Geoff Derrick as assistant secretary of the Finance Sector Union (FSU). Derrick left the FSU in March to take up a role at the Australian Council of Trade Unions. FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano said in a statement Rees had a reputation for “stamping out corruption and putting the inter...
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ACTU applauds union intervention for killing off ‘dodgy' dnata EA
Australia's peak union body has praised the Australian Services Union's (ASU) lobbying efforts after an airport ground handling group withdrew a Fair Work Commission (FWC) application for approval of a wages deal the union claimed would undermine workers. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) congratulated the ASU for its “victoryR...
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FWC proceedings dogged by poorly drafted agreements: bench
In a matter highlighting the challenges of interpreting enterprise agreements (EAs) with “obvious defects in drafting”, a Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld an engineering company's appeal in a dispute with the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) over the Ichthys LNG project. The matter focused on an “ambiguous” clause rel...
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Engineers at Tasports retain separate agreement
Engineers at Tasmanian Ports Corporation (Tasports) will continue to be covered by a separate agreement, following the corporation's failed push to have all its marine towage workforce under the one deal. Approving an Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (AIMPE) scope order application seeking the separate agreement, MUA barraging ...
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