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Unions ramp up fight to reinstate ‘drop your daks' Dave

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Unions are ramping up their campaign to reinstate sacked Appin Mine worker and lodge president Dave McLachlan. South32 dismissed McLachlan last month after “dropping his daks” in a protest over the mine's failure to provide an agreed laundry service. Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union south western mining division vice president ...

‘Stalking, intimidating' federal agent loses unfair dismissal case in FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has dismissed an Australian Federal Police (AFP) agent's unfair dismissal application because substantiated allegations showed his actions were inconsistent with the agency's standards and core values. Deputy President Jeff Lawrence found AFP agent Paul Hackett had on the balance of probabilities stalked and intimidated a w...

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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, 0422 567 004, annie.lawson@tr.com Chief Journalist: Gerard May Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Trifecta fuels black economy: report

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Sluggish wages growth, complex business regulation and an expansion of the sharing economy have conspired to create a thriving black economy, a report has warned. A raft of actions was needed to curb the black economy the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated had grown to 1.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), equating to $25bn a year in Austral...

Setback for law lecturer in workplace bullying matter

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has dismissed as irrelevant a report into the workplace practices of a different university to the one that employed a law lecturer seeking to strengthen his case against a colleague he accused of bullying. Dr Michael McShane, who worked at Deakin University, applied to the FWC to have access to the report. McShane sa...

Coles EA termination bid could have ‘commercial effects'

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has directed that a Coles Supermarket Pty Ltd employee's enterprise agreement (EA) termination application be referred to a full bench to determine. Vice President Adam Hatcher granted Penelope Vickers' application that the Coles 2011 EA referral be made. That was because it had the potential to have broad economic an...

EA approval ‘derailed by an inadvertent mistake'

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has dismissed an employer's application to approve its enterprise agreement (EA) because it put the wrong telephone number on the notice of employee representational rights ( NERR ) to workers. Commissioner David Gregory said it was “obviously unfortunate” that Kimberly Clark Australia Pty Ltd had its EA a...

Penalty rate cuts slice $667m from regional workers

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The impending cuts to penalty rates in the hospitality, retail and pharmacy sectors are expected to shave $667m in disposable income a year from nearly 300,000 workers in 45 regional communities across Australia, a new report has found ( WF 24/3/17 ). The McKell Institute research said the Sunday penalty rate reductions would impact more than 277,0...

Send wage thieves to jail: TWU

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Employers that underpaid their workers and failed to pay employee superannuation entitlements should be jailed for wage theft, the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) has proposed. TWU national secretary Tony Sheldon advocated changes to the Fair Work (FW) Act to criminalise employee underpayment during a speech at the union's national council in Perth ...

Service economy triggers rise in part-time work: RBA

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Changing labour market regulations, technological change and a shift towards a service-based economy have fuelled a surge in part-time work in Australia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has stated. Minutes from the RBA's recent meeting released today revealed a surge in part-time work from about 10% during the 1970s to a third now was high comp...

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Editor: Annie Lawson (03) 8684 2127, 0422 567 004, annie.lawson@tr.com . Chief Journalist: Gerard May Managing Editor: Peter Schwab Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Public outstrips private sector - but wages growth hits record low: ABS

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Despite annual wages growth reaching a record low of 1.9%, public sector workers continued to outperform their private sector counterparts with marginally stronger pay rises, new figures show. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed the annual growth rate in wages was the lowest since the figures began in the late 1990s, with seasonally ...

There is no pay rise ‘magic number' that cuts jobs: FWC expert panel

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The Fair Work Commission's (FWC) annual wage review expert panel has today cited a UK study that found there was no evidence gradual minimum wage increases over the last 17 years had led to job losses. The research conducted by RAND found a significant increase could lead to job cuts, the panel said at the annual wage review hearing in the FWC's Me...

FWC wants retrospective power to manage minor NERR errors

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has called for an expansion of its discretionary powers to be made retrospective to avoid “delay, inconvenience and expense” in the enterprise agreement (EA) approval process. In a submission to a Senate inquiry into the Fair Work Amendment (Repeal of the 4 Yearly Reviews and Other Measures) Bill , the cmn...

FWC orders reinstatement of worker sacked for safety breaches

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The Fair Work Commission has ordered BHP Coal reinstate a warehouse worker sacked after a forklift he was driving struck a truck door and injured the driver's hand. Commissioner Chris Simpson found BHP Coal had a valid reason to sack Andrew Tomlinson - but its dismissal process was “procedurally unfair” due to flaws in its loading proce...

Govt to clamp down on employers exploiting entitlements scheme

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The Federal Government is targeting corporate misuse of the taxpayer-funded Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) that pays employee entitlements when businesses go bust, saying payments have increased 75%. The govt said the scheme was a “last resort” option in need of reform to prevent exploitation from companies seeking to avoid their wor...

Carter Holt says closure ‘unavoidable': govt

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The Vic Government has revealed Carter Holt Harvey Building Supplies Group (CHH) will close its Morwell sawmill and cut 160 jobs, while workers at its Myrtleford site remain locked out. The govt said CHH told it the closure was “unavoidable” because damaging fires across Gippsland for two decades had resulted in Morwell receiving poor s...

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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

Coates Hire EA termination bid shows FW Act ‘broken': union

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Coates Hire workers face having their wages reduced by 41% if they fail to vote up the company's third enterprise agreement (EA) proposal on Thursday (May 19), the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) has said. The union said its bargaining dispute with the company demonstrated the Fair Work Act was “broken”. AMWU national ass...

CUB manager's diary reveals graphic anti-worker comments

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The Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work (FW) Act has today heard startling accusations that a CUB Abbotsford plant manager had a diary page titled “winning the war” during the company's dispute with unions. CUB rejected inquiry chair Senator Gavin Marshall's line of questions about whether it had a strategy to break...
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