The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found Qantas Airways Limitedincorrectly reclassified catering workers during a restructure resulting in them being paid much less for doing the same work. Commissioner Ian Cambridge said a senior airline services coordinator's primary operations, functions and responsibilities had been retained in a new dispatch a...
TWU wins classification blue after Qantas makes ‘unfortunate error'
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Courts staff buck agency trend and oppose EA
Federal, Family and Federal Circuit courts employees have “emphatically” rejected a proposed enterprise agreement (EA) that the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) claims “fell far short” of other Commonwealth agency deals. The CPSU said 90% of the 81% of eligible staff who voted opposed the EA in what was one of the ...
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Building code challenge progresses
The Federal Court has today confirmed the Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) challenge to the new building industry code would proceed to a hearing ( WF 23/6/17 ). CEPU wanted the court to overturn an Australian Building and Construction Commission determination the building code apply to hundreds of SA Power Networks workers. The ...
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CPSU congratulates DHS on 2000 extra permanent jobs
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has claimed its campaigning has helped win 2,000 permanent jobs at the Department of Human Services (DHS). CPSU said DHS informed the union the majority of the roles will be filled by current casuals whose jobs will be made full-time and who perform call centre and processing work. It said the full-time ...
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Proposed FDV clause ‘too broad' but FWC floats unpaid leave
WFD: The Fair Work Commission on Monday (July 3) delivered a pyrrhic victory to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), proposing unpaid family and domestic violence (FDV) leave instead of paid leave be included in awards ( WF 31/3/17 ). Senior Deputy President Anne Gooley and Commissioner Paula Spencer said “in rejecting the ACTU's pr...
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Labor attacks Fed Govt's failure to respond to domestic violence ruling
WFD: The Labor Party has criticised the Federal Government for remaining tight-lipped about the FWC ruling. It said the govt had “vacated the field” by failing to respond to the cmn's acknowledgment that domestic violence leave should be considered a workplace right. Employment spokesperson Brendan O'Connor and preventing family violenc...
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CFMEU wins demarcation blue against AWU
WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has found an employer and the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) will have to “co-exist” with the Construction Forest Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The bench - President Justice Iain Ross, Deputy President Anne Gooley and Commissioner Jennifer Hunt - upheld Cmr Julius Roe's decision that CFMEU wa...
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FWC rejects claim Coles forced a ‘timorous' employee to resign
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a claim Coles Supermarkets forced a long-serving employee with a history of poor customer service that resulted in several formal warnings to resign. Rejecting her claim for reinstatement and compensation, Deputy President Peter Anderson found Elizabeth Price was “potentially vulnerable” being...
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First contested election at AMIEU in 30 years
WFD: The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) NSW branch is holding its first contested election in 30 years, according to the union's former vice president Jim Hickey who is leading a ticket against incumbents. Hickey told Workforce Daily that at Federal Court mediation in February the union dropped its bid to block his challenge to ...
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Bench dismisses ACTU bid for paid domestic violence leave
WFD: The two other Fair Work Commission full bench members have agreed with then-Vice President Graeme Watson and rejected a union proposal for paid domestic violence, concluding such a clause was not “necessary to meet the modern award objective”. Senior Deputy President Anne Gooley and Commissioner Paula Spencer today handed down thei...
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Carter Holt dispute comes to an end
WFD: Carter Holt Harvey workers have voted in favour of the company's proposed enterprise agreement (EA), ending a protracted dispute that saw employees locked out for more than 10 weeks ( WF 30/06/17 ). Some 111 workers supported the EA and 70 voted against the wage deal having rejected it 97-86 last month. The Construction Forestry Mining Energy ...
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Court finds individual workers guilty of coercion
WFD: The Federal Court has found 61 individual employees working for Laing O'Rourke Construction Australia Pty Ltd (LOR) at the Ichthys project in NT engaged in unlawful industrial action with the intention of coercing their employer, and that the stoppage was in breach of their enterprise agreement (EA) dispute resolution provisions. Justice Richa...
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Unions claims employment program a form of cheap labour
WFD: Unions have criticised a Federal Government program to create up to 10,000 retail internships, fearing it will fail to create real job opportunities for young job-seekers. Employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash said the partnership with the Australian Retailers Association would create thousands of internships via the govt's Youth Jobs PaT...
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Consulate staff accuse Spanish govt of ignoring award wage increases
WFD: Staff at Sydney's Spanish Consulate have accused the Spanish Government of failing to pass on the base award wage increases that took effect on July 1. The employees went on indefinite strike last week after claiming the govt had refused the locally-hired eight Australian citizens and residents pay increases since 2009 ( WF 23/6/17 ). Earlier ...
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Govt buyout spares 250 jobs
WFD: The Victorian Government has announced its plan to buy the Heyfield Timber Mill to save about 250 jobs that faced the chopping block after the owner planned to shut operations. Australian Sustainable Hardwoods and its owner the Hermal Group revealed it would begin shutting down in August after rejecting a govt offer to buy it out. In a stateme...
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Union accuses national branch and Aust Post of misinforming workers
A Vic union has claimed its national office and Australia Post misinformed posties when they told them to vote up an enterprise agreement (EA) with 2% a year pay increases - in a dispute over whether the corporation was bound by the Federal Government's workplace bargaining policy. Communications Workers Union Victoria branch (CWU Vic - aka the Vic...
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Ship captain dismissal harsh despite alcohol policy breach
The Fair Work Commission has found a ship captain's sacking for consuming nine full-strength beers before a shift was harsh after employer Farstad Shipping (Indian Pacific) failed to adequately conclude an investigation into his conduct during a 2014 safety meeting. However, Commissioner Michelle Bissett held Captain Jurgen Rust, who worked as a Ma...
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CFMEU holds the line against casual contagion
The mining union has claimed a “major win” after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) rejected an employer bid to extend casual employment provisions in the Black Coal Industry Award to production and engineering employees. Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) mining and energy division national industrial officer Andrew Thomas t...
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Employer right to sack worker who reacted aggressively to caution
A worker was not sacked for making a complaint -but rather for the manner in which he made the complaint, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled. Tossing out Eddo Mesias Ibarra Campoverde's adverse action application against Regional Health Care Group, Judge Robert Cameron found no support for Ibarra's argument he was sacked for exercising a workplace...
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