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Security guards sacked for speaking to FWO inspectors

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The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has taken legal action against a Gold Coast security firm that allegedly threatened to send staff “straight to the dole queue” if they spoke to inspectors. The FWO alleged Adam Marcinkowski and his company VIP Security Services Pty Ltd took adverse action against three employees and underpaid staff nearly $...

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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

UV sharpens knife ahead of showdown with Lion Nathan

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WFD: United Voice (UV) is seeking safeguards for permanent workers at the Castlemaine Perkins brewery in Milton, Queensland at a meeting with Lion Nathan on Wednesday (July 12). The union fears the company will shut down the plant famed for producing XXXX beer if they fail to reach agreement over plans to boost casual staff during seasonal peak per...

AFP to talk to officers after EA unanimously rejected

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WFD: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has said it will hold staff focus groups after police officers unanimously rejected its enterprise agreement (EA) offer. AFP said 81% of the87% of eligible voters voted against the EA. Acting AFP Commissioner Michael Phelan said he will soon “appoint an executive to lead the renegotiations”. He s...

FWC halts industrial action at WorkSafe Vic

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered WorkSafe Victoria employees to cease unprotected industrial action for the next month after the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) accused the authority of failing to consult its members over proposed work changes. Commissioner Nick Wilson had granted WorkSafe an order to stop workers taking unp...

Court finds company fired worker for being pregnant

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WFD: The Federal Circuit Court has found a worker was fired because she was pregnant and was absent from work after taking pregnancy-related leave. Burgess Rawson and Associates Pty director Mr Perrin told the court he terminated administrative assistant Tiffany Mahajan because of poor performance and for being late several times. However, Judge He...

SA Govt plans to regulate labour hire industry

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WFD: The South Australia Government has revealed it will follow Queensland and Victoria's lead and introduce a state licensing scheme for labour hire operators to crack down on worker exploitation. Attorney-General John Rau promised to introduce a licensing scheme that could include: a fit and proper person test for owners and directors; annual rep...

FWC terminates EA that is ‘well below' award to make business fair

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WFD: Hundreds of security guards will be entitled to overtime and better conditions after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ordered the termination of the Wilson Security Pty Ltd - Western Australia Collective Agreement 2009 (EA). Deputy President Melanie Binet found the EA “was out of touch” because “in the more than seven years sin...

WA police officers downgrade fines in response to wage offer

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WFD: Western Australian police officers have begun issuing cautions instead of fines for minor traffic and alcohol offences as part of industrial action in response to the WA Government's offer of a flat $1,000 pay increase. A WA Police Union (WAPU) spokesperson told Workforce Daily 88% of its members voted against the WA Govt's offer of a $1,000 p...

AWU stalwart retires

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WFD: Australian Workers Union (AWU) NSW secretary Russ Collison has announced his retirement after 50 years in the trade union movement. Collison began his working life on the railways, and spent time in abattoirs and on Bass Strait oil rigs before returning to Sydney to work at Tooheys brewery. He qualified as a rigger and scaffolder and became a ...

Brain researcher investigated for misconduct loses interim order bid

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WFD: A brain research fellow under investigation for alleged research misconduct has lost his bid in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for an interim order preventing the University of Queensland (UQ) from appointing a successor after his contract ended this year. Commissioner Jennifer Hunt found UQ's selection process for Dr Hari Subramanian's role w...

Text messages ‘incontrovertible' evidence worker tried to take client

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WFD: A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench has dismissed a worker's appeal against a decision upholding his dismissal, after agreeing the evidence he attempted to obtain a contract from his employer's client “was incontrovertible”. The bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Lyndall Dean and Commissioner Nick Wilson - fo...

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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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Future of Work Conference , November 28, University of Melbourne. More info here

Temporary reprieve for 250 Islamic school teachers facing sack

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Two hundred and fifty teachers facing the sack at Malek Fahd Islamic School in Sydney's west have been granted a temporary reprieve after the Federal Court allowed the school extra time to appeal a funding cut. The Court has ordered the Federal Government to pay the school money owed and to continue monthly funding payments until it has heard the a...

Prison war calms after management and union agree to bargain

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United Voice (UV) Qld and GEO Group Australia are having their first bargaining meeting today since the company locked prison officers out of the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centrefor striking over enterprise agreement (EA) safety provisions, the union has said. UV organiser Damien Davie told Workforce GEO locked 80 officers out on July 7-8 for nine...

Taxpayers fund Qld Nickel $67m employee payout

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The Federal Government has today revealed 759 employees of failed company Queensland Nickel have been paid nearly $67m in total as legal action against Clive Palmer, his nephew Clive Mensink and 19 other parties began in the Qld Supreme Court. Employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash said in a statement about 455 employees were owed an estimated ...

Fortescue executive among FWC appointees

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Employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash has appointed three new deputy presidents to the Fair Work Commission (FWC), two from the resources sector and the third from law firm Seyfarth Shaw. Fortescue Metals Group human resources and employee relations manager Abbey Beaumont, who was previously a Blake Dawson lawyer and a nurse, begins at the FWC...

FWC president appoints himself to domestic violence leave bench

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Fair Work Commission (FWC) President Justice Iain Ross has appointed himself as a presiding member to the full bench examining the Australian Council of Trade Union's claim for paid domestic violence leave to be introduced to awards. Justice Ross said he issued a decision on June 30 permitting Deputy President Anne Gooley and Commissioner Paula Spe...

FWC denies stay of unfair dismissal matter until civil matter heard

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has refused to stay its hearing of an unfair dismissal claim until the Federal Court heard a separate general protections claim. The employer, a Good Guys retailer based in Western Australia, argued it would suffer prejudice if the matters ran concurrently. However, FWC Deputy President Geoffrey Bull found the overlap...
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