The Federal Circuit Court has ordered BOC Australia to pay a pregnant worker it retrenched two days before she was to start paid maternity leave $57,842, which included $9,000 for hurt, suffering and humiliation. BOC Ltd, part of the multinational Linde Group, made Caroline Power redundant from her $78,953-a-year customer accounts manager job in Mt...
Pregnant worker axed 2 days before paid maternity leave awarded $57k
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Brewery workers to vote on strikes
United Voice (UV) members at two Lion brewery sites have separately sought Fair Work Commission (FWC) approval for strike action over pay and conditions, with one successful. UV had been trying to reach agreement in Qld until pursued non-permitted matter In South Australia, Lions West End's SA Brewing Company workers will vote on strike action afte...
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Cmn refuses comp for unfairly sacked finance manager who lied
The Fair Work Commission has refused to compensate an “out-of-her-depth” finance manager who was unfairly summarily dismissed, after finding she lied about her qualifications. Spectrum Community Focus Ltd (SCF) summarily dismissed Emma Valenzuela after she posted inaccurate financial returns for the company showing a $600,000 loss when ...
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USU's mixed negotiation success at airline
The United Services Union (USU) says it has resolved three contentious enterprise agreement (EA) points with Rex Express Airlines but continues to negotiate five others. A ninth would not be continued. USU released a member update saying it and the regional airline had agreed on new annual leave rosters; probation review periods; and presenting med...
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NTEU to resume talks with JCU, deal at CQU, sparks fly at Uni Tasmania
University of Tasmania (UTAS) students could have their exam results withheld as bargaining tensions escalate between the uni and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). NTEU Tasmania division secretary Kelvin Michael told Workforce Daily protected industrial action, which started on campus in early September, would continue in “coming ...
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Blue-collar unions seek to block BCC pay offer to staff
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) has this afternoon (October 9) reserved its decision on an application by blue-collar unions to stop Brisbane City Council (BCC) putting an enterprise agreement proposing a 2.5% a year pay increase to workers ( WF 6/10/2017 ) . Blue-collar unions are incensed BCC's larger salaried workforce has ...
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FWC issues anti-bullying orders as librarians' feud gets out of hand
The Fair Work Commission has issued anti-bullying orders against a local government body, including that it review its procedures for disciplinary proceedings and hire anti-bullying trainers. In a case involving feuding librarians at the Alice Springs Town Council, Commissioner Nick Wilson found the council had bullied librarian Kate Burbeck, repre...
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Exec fights US parent and Aust division over employment breaches
The Federal Court has struck out key parts of a damages claim by a dismissed executive who said he was “misled” into leaving his US job to work in his employer's Australian division. Kevin Olsen's claim against Hilco Australia and Hilco USA alleged multiple breaches of corporations' law involving alleged victimisation, misleading conduc...
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Veteran yard hand unfairly sacked at request of customer
The Fair Work Commission has awarded a veteran yard hand $25,765 compensation after he was unfairly sacked at the request of a customer on unproven safety grounds. Steric Solutions argued its sacking of Minas Trialonas after 10 years was for serious misconduct relating to "language, intimidation, bullying and serious safety breaches". However, Comm...
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Journalists: Steve Andrew, Rajiv Maharaj. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Contact: (02) 8587 7681 and peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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FWC issues anti-bullying orders as librarians' feud gets out of hand
The Fair Work Commission has issued anti-bullying orders against a local government body, including that it review its procedures for disciplinary proceedings and hire anti-bullying trainers. In a case involving feuding librarians at the Alice Springs Town Council, Commissioner Nick Wilson found the council had bullied librarian Kate Burbeck, repre...
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FWC bench bins bogus EA with no employees, refers to Fed Police
A Fair Work Commission full bench has binned an EA after learning the commission had been “seriously misled” at the time of application, including that a yet to be opened café had employees who had voted up the deal. There were no employees and no vote had taken place. The bench has passed the matter on to the FWC general manager for re...
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Unions fail to block pathology lab putting pay offer direct to workers
The Federal Court has rejected an 11 th -hour bid by unions to stop medical laboratory services company Dorevitch Pathology from bypassing unions and putting its enterprise agreement (EA) offer direct to a vote of workers. The vote, which closes today (October 10), follows the Fair Work Commission's September 4 termination of protected industrial a...
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Labor's plan to prepare Australians for tech revolution
A Labor government would look to introduce “income smoothing” for workers while they are between jobs as one measure to prepare the workforce for the machine age, Federal Shadow finance minister Jim Chalmers says. Speaking at the annual John Button lecture on Monday night, Chalmers said the impact of new technology on jobs was “th...
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Qld Govt to extend industrial manslaughter laws to resources
Queensland resources sector employers are up in arms after belatedly learning new industrial manslaughter laws ( WF 23/08/17 ) to be voted on in State Parliament this week will apply to them. The legislation - the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - was approved in cabinet yesterday (October 10). If passed, individual...
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Deadline for integrity bill extended
A Senate committee has extended until Thursday (October 12) the deadline for its inquiry and report into legislative amendments that threaten the proposed merger of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union, the Maritime Union of Australia and the Textiles, Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) ( WF 6/10/17 ). The Senate Education ...
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Management entity without employees refused right to lodge EA
A management company acting for societies providing assisted living accommodation for the disabled has been refused approval to lodge an enterprise agreement (EA) because the company “didn't have employees” covered by the EA. The application by Abbeyfield Australia Ltd, trading as Abbeyfield Australia (AAL), sought to cover housekeepers...
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Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalists: Steve Andrew, Rajiv Maharaj. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Contact: (02) 8587 7681 and peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Full Court knocks out union appeals on penalty rate cuts
A Full Court of the Federal Court has comprehensively shot down a union bid to overturn the Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision to cut penalty rates for fast food, hospitality, retail and pharmacy sector workers. The appeals brought by United Voice and the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) sought to have the FWC June 21 decis...
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Protest alleges underpayment of airport link workers
At presstime, Western Australian construction workers were wrapping up a protest outside the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WACCI) over the alleged underpayment of workers on the Forrestfield-Airport Link project. The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) construction division has accused the chamber of being complicit in the alle...
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