Sydney bus drivers have not ruled out further strikes in response to NSW Government plans unveiled on Monday (May 15) to privatise the inner west part of the Sydney network. Some 1,200 bus drivers from four depots - Leichhardt, Burwood, Kingsgrove and Tempe - held 24-hour stoppages from midnight despite the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC)...
Further strikes on the cards over bus privatisation
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Cricket Australia rejects offer of mediation to resolve pay impasse
Negotiations over a new pay deal between Cricket Australia (CA) and players have stalled, with CA yesterday (May 17) rejecting a call for mediation. CA proposed a new pay model for Australia's local and international players (male and female), which players rejected. The model excludes a key condition in the current agreement in which players recei...
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‘Open justice' prevails in Facebook post dispute
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has knocked back a union bid for an extension of a confidentiality order in a dispute over allegedly offensive Facebook comments a firefighter posted. In revoking a May 30 stay order, the bench - Vice President Joe Catanzariti, Deputy President Reg Hamilton and Commissioner Bernie Riordan - found public inter...
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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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Part-time jobs jump eases unemployment
A surge in part-time jobs has steered the unemployment rate lower to 5.7%, new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show. The stable trend number saw the unemployment rate remaining steady at 5.8% as the labour participation rate was steady at 64.8% in April 2017, the ABS revealed. Trend estimates showed employment rose 19,900 to 12.07 mil...
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Carter Holt says closure ‘unavoidable': govt
WFD: The Victorian 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 recei...
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Penalty rate cuts slice $667m from regional workers
WFD: 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 ...
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Service economy triggers rise in part-time work: RBA
WFD: 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...
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Send wage thieves to jail: TWU
WFD: 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 P...
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‘Stalking, intimidating' federal agent loses unfair dismissal case in FWC
WFD: 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 intimidate...
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Coles EA termination bid could have ‘commercial effects'
WFD: 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 econom...
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Trifecta fuels black economy: report
WFD: 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 Au...
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Setback for law lecturer in workplace bullying matter
WFD: 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. McSha...
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There is no pay rise ‘magic number' that cuts jobs: FWC expert panel
WFD: 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...
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Inquiry told of ‘unusual' relationship between SDA and bosses
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) secretary Josh Cullinan has told a Senate inquiry its rival and established union the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) has developed a close relationship with companies to increase its membership. RAFFWU delegate David Suter told the Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act inq...
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Employers could be forced to justify WorkChoices EAs
The Senate inquiry into Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act may recommend terminating WorkChoices era enterprise agreements (EA). Inquiry chair Senator Gavin Marshall said at yesterday's (May 18) Melbourne public hearing the committee had found the EAs often paid under award wages and conditions. He said one option the committee was considerin...
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Qld to create ‘negligence causing death' offence
On press day, the Qld Government has announced it will create the offence of “negligence causing death” in response to an interim recommendation from the review launched following the 2016 deaths at Eagle Farm and Dreamworld. Employment minister Grace Grace said the Best Practice Review of Workplace Health and Safety Independent Reviewe...
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Emergency workers' pay cut for minor bans triggers strike: AWU
There is no local emergency response on Melbourne's 39km EastLink motorway today after 28 maintenance workers went on strike over an enterprise agreement (EA) dispute, the Australian Workers Union (AWU) has said. The union said its members took the dramatic action - including a ban on moving broken down vehicles to emergency lanes - after maintenan...
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