Wharfies are set to launch 24 hour strike action at Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal starting 10pm Thursday (August 31) over claims Flinders Ports Holdings had been “dishonest” in enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said. WA assistant secretary Will Tracy told Workforce Daily “the anger of...
Striking wharfies' anger ‘palpable' at Flinders Ports: MUA
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Clerk terminated with one week's notice unfairly dismissed
A clerk terminated with just one weeks' notice following a slide in business was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. Awarding Belinda Morris $5,482 compensation, Commissioner Christopher Platt found the redundancy process instigated by employer Community Caring Pty Ltd, trading as Carers That Care (CTC), was not genuine. The cmn...
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Summary dismissal ok as promoting own rival business on Facebook
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a summary termination of a worker was valid because she had promoted on Facebook her private business that was in competition with her employer. Commissioner Tony Saunders found Revitalise Face & Body Therapies and Lift Skin Body Beauty owner June Austen had a valid reason to fire salon manager Narelle B...
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Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab, peter.schwab@tr.com and Ph (02) 8587 7681. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Summary dismissal ok as promoting own rival business on Facebook
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a summary termination of a worker was valid because she had promoted on Facebook her private business that was in competition with her employer. Commissioner Tony Saunders found Revitalise Face & Body Therapies and Lift Skin Body Beauty owner June Austen had a valid reason to fire salon manager Narelle B...
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‘Largest-ever' class action over alleged underpayments by govt body
A growing class action claiming Airservices Australia underpaid manager superannuation and redundancy entitlements has raised questions over the legality of pay arrangements in other self-funded government body corporations. A lawsuit being prepared by Chamberlain Law alleges Airservices Australia coerced its managers to sign on to personal managem...
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FWC terminates EA to remove common industry provisions
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has terminated the Murdoch University enterprise agreement (EA) as it would likely lead to the bargaining parties, who “are well apart”, to successfully negotiate a new deal. Murdoch argued it needed to remove the EA's workplace change, dispute and misconduct provisions because of its “dire” fi...
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‘Angry' NTEU members to decide tomorrow on industrial action
NTEU WA secretary Gabe Gooding told Workforce Daily the union was “considering all its options” including whether it would appeal the FWC decision to terminate the Murdoch University agreement (above) . She said NTEU's Murdoch members were “angry” about the decision and were holding a mass meeting tomorrow (Thursday, August ...
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Golf day did not breach injured worker's return-to-work obligations
A warehouse supervisor sacked for playing golf while on restricted duties for a back injury was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. Ordering Trevor Moody to provide details of workers' compensation payments he'd received before the cmn would decide on the payout, Commissioner David Gregory said a day on the golf course didn't ju...
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Editorial Team
Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab, peter.schwab@tr.com and Ph (02) 8587 7681. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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FWC grants super union ballots
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has granted the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Textile Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) the right to ballot their members for a proposed super union with the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The proposed amalgamated union is not a fait accompli because employers have flagged they would seek...
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Summary dismissal of veteran over safety breach unfair
A supervisor sacked after he ignored safety procedures by authorising a worker to use a forklift to retrieve another forklift hanging off the edge of a dock was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled. Awarding $6,898 compensation to Robert Marangon, Commissioner Ian Cambridge found summary dismissal of the 14-year veteran R...
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Federal Court clarifies right of entry
The Federal Court has confirmed union right of entry “during mealtime or other breaks” doesn't extend to before and after a shift. Tossing out contrary argument by the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) WA branch, Justice Geoffrey Flick found s490 (2) of the Fair Work (FW) Act “clearly states” right of entry d...
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Editorial Team
Chief Journalist: Gerard May. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab, peter.schwab@tr.com and Ph (02) 8587 7681. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Prison wins legal rep because of criminal case complexity
In a matter with a “long history”, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has allowed correctional services provider GEO Group Australia to be legally represented at an upcoming unfair dismissal hearing because the matter was “anything but ‘commonplace'”. In early 2014 after an assault in a GEO-run prison four workers - Jason ...
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Golf day did not breach injured worker's return-to-work obligations
WFD: A warehouse supervisor sacked for playing golf while on restricted duties for a back injury was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. Ordering Trevor Moody to provide details of workers' compensation payments he'd received before the cmn would decide on the payout, Commissioner David Gregory said a day on the golf course didn...
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Aldi fails to block pickets
WFD: Aldi Foods has failed to stop unions picketing its stores in protest over an alleged spike in road deaths involving truck drivers delivering to it. Tossing out Aldi's application for an interlocutory injunction banning the picket lines, Federal Court Justice Nye Perram said any damage the company suffered was “limited”. The picket ...
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Uber-registered driver found to be a 'worker' under SA Act
WFD: The SA Employment Tribunal has ruled a Uber-registered driver was employed on a contract of service when he sustained a back injury at Adelaide Airport. He was therefore entitled to workers' compensation under the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (WRC) Act 1986, Workforce associate news service Workers Compensation Report revealed . Dep...
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Striking wharfies' anger ‘palpable' at Flinders Ports: MUA
WFD: Wharfies are set to launch 24 hour strike action at Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal starting 10pm Thursday (August 31) over claims Flinders Ports Holdings had been “dishonest” in enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said. MUA deputy national secretary Will Tracey told Workforce Daily “...
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Summary dismissal ok as promoting own rival business on Facebook
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found a summary termination of a worker was valid because she had promoted on Facebook her private business that was in competition with her employer. Commissioner Tony Saunders found Revitalise Face & Body Therapies and Lift Skin Body Beauty owner June Austen had a valid reason to fire salon manager Nare...
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