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Inquiry to recommend end of unilateral EA terminations

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WFD: A Senate committee will recommend the Fair Work Act be amended so enterprise agreements (EA) cannot be terminated where workers would be worse off, Workforce Daily understands. The Corporate Avoidance of the Fair WorkAct committee is due to release its final report to the Senate on Wednesday (September 6). Workforce understands it will also re...

Cleaning firm fined $130k after ‘shifting assets' to avoid wages bill

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WFD: The Federal Court has imposed a higher-than-average $130k fine on a cleaning company and its owner for underpaying workers, after hearing allegations they shifted assets and used labour hire companies in an attempt to avoid wage obligations. Justice Jayne Jagot said the fines of $110,000 on Lloyds Services ACT Pty Ltd (formerly Phillip Cleanin...

Safety policies and procedures need to be clear and specific

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WFD: Woolworths Fuel unfairly sacked a service station worker because it unreasonably expected him to apply its armed robbery procedures to a situation where there was no armed robbery, the Fair Work Commission full bench has found ( WF 9/6/2017 ). Granting Tapan Mistry the right to appeal his sacking, the full bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, ...

Worker's dismissal unreasonable because reason given was a lie

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WFD: The sacking of a worker because he had issued an invoice to a client using a company letterhead but with his private account banking details was unreasonable, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found. That was because the company did not tell the worker that was the real reason it dismissed him and so failed to give him an opportunity to respo...

Boral subsidiary faces possible max penalty over adverse action

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WFD: Boral subsidiary De Martin & Gasparini (DMG) faces a possible maximum penalty under adverse action laws for threatening to make its workers redundant if they didn't agree to a “building-code compliant” enterprise agreement (EA). On Friday (September 1), Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney found redundancy threats made by two s...

Govt to up boycott penalty to $10m

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WFD: The Labor Party will try to stop the Federal Government increasing the maximum penalty for “sympathy strikes” from $750k to $10m in changes to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. The Competition and Consumer Amendment (Competition Policy Review) Bill 2017 is set to be reintroduced into parliament this week after being submitted ...

Workers' compensation pay doesn't prevent accrual of annual leave

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WFD: The Fair Work Act does not prevent workers accruing annual leave while on workers' compensation if state w/comp laws permit it, a Fair Work Commission full bench has reaffirmed. In separate but related dispute findings, the bench found s130(1) of the Fair Work Act “does not prevent a worker taking or accruing leave during a compensation ...

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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

New corrupting benefits laws come into effect Monday

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The Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) is urging employers, employer associations and unions to make sure they fully understand the new corrupting benefits laws as they come into effect on Monday (September 11), a spokesperson told Workforce . The Fair Work Amendment (Corrupting Benefits) Act 2017 makes it an offence for an employer covered ...

Qld govt at loggerheads with industry over new labour hire laws

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Unscrupulous labour hire operators that seek to rip off vulnerable workers will have no place to hide in Queensland after a ”nation-leading” licensing scheme was enacted in state parliament yesterday, the State Government has said.All labour hire providers in Qld will have to pass a fit-and-proper person test, pay a licence fee and repo...

Qld Rail wins right to advertise externally for drivers

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The rail union has failed in its demand Queensland Rail give first preference to existing drivers in a recruitment drive to fix south-east Qld's trouble-plagued rail network. In a dispute hearing, the Rail Tram and Bus Union claimed advertising of jobs externally breached terms in the Queensland Rail Traincrew Enterprise Agreement 2017. However, Fa...

Ex-spyboss to head employment

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Ex-Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) deputy director-general Kerri Hartland is to be the new employment department secretary, as part of a round of musical chairs. In a statement, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said “notably” Hartland had been the first female ASIO deputy director-general “and is the only ASIO ...

Disputes down but lost days up: ABS

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The number of industrial disputes in Australia has dropped in the past year - from 264 to 200, latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures reveal. However, the number of working days lost increased 37% to 137,800. The ABS industrial disputes figures reveal there were 47 disputes in the June 2017 quarter, 15 more than in the March quarter 2...

Big jump in underemployed: RMR

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The number of underemployed workers nationally has increased 324,000 (2.4%) in a year, according to the latest Roy Morgan Research (RMR) figures . RMR's unemployment figure of 10.2% (or 1.324 million people) was substantially higher than the ABS estimate for July 2017 of 5.6% (730,600) - but similar to RMR's of a year ago. RMR says the difference i...

Supply chain slavery No1 issue

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth has rated modern slavery and compliance across the supply chain as the number one issue employers will face in 2017-18. The law firm's labour and safety mid-year review report said there was likely to be a heightened focus on supply chain minimum labour standards because of new Fair Work Ombudsmen (FWO) powers, labour licen...

Employers rush to obtain building code sign off, with 67% compliant

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Seven in 10 registered construction industry enterprise agreements (EAs) assessed to date by the Federal Government regulator meet the govt's new building code, exclusive latest figures obtained by Workforce Daily suggest. In a statement to a WF Daily on Friday (September 8), the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) confirmed it h...

Vic Govt to ‘ensure consistency' of labour hire laws with Qld and SA

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The Victorian Government announced yesterday (September 10) it would introduce legislation into parliament for a universal labour-hire licensing scheme to crack down “on the abuse and exploitation of Victorian workers”. The Vic Govt's proposed blanket coverage goes further than what an independent labour hire and insecure work final inq...

FWC dismisses mushroom grower's bullying complaints

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The Fair Work Commission has largely dismissed a second round of ‘stop bullying' complaints by a mushroom grower who alleged he was unfairly targeted over his job performance. Urging the parties in the latest matter to “come together” for the good of the working relationship, Deputy President Peter Anderson found only one of the s...

Dorevitch strikes ended because their impacts may ‘threaten' life

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has revealed it terminated union industrial action on September 4 at Dorevitch Pathology because of the “severity” of its “implications”. The severity threatened to endanger life, personal safety or welfare of “part of the population” through the “limitation on the availabilit...

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