Having succeeded in having the old deal terminated, Murdoch University has tabled a new four-year pay offer for staff, which includes a 1% pay increase in 2019, 2% in 2021, and two cash payments of $1,000 (2018), and $1,500 (2020). The university confirmed to Workforce Daily it has sent the offer to the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). ...
Murdoch Uni tables 3% over 4 years plus $2500 cash
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Penalty rate battlelines confirmed as war shifts back to political arena
Australia's lowest paid workers will suffer the biggest hit after the Full Federal Court upheld the decision to slash Sunday and public holiday penalty rates, unions say. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is demanding action from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after the Federal Court upheld the Fair Work Commission's decision on penalt...
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FWO announces ‘milestone' deed to protect Woolies trolley collectors
In a “significant milestone”, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has announced a new compliance partnership with Woolworths to help ensure its trolley collection workers are paid correctly. Under the deed, the retail giant must audit the employee pay records of businesses tendering for trolley collection contracts, and conduct annual audits ...
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Ross sets up full bench to probe penalty rate trade-off EAs
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has constituted a full bench to take a closer look at enterprise agreements (EAs) that trade away weekend penalty rates for higher ordinary hours pay, including deals negotiated by Aldi and Gloria Jean's Coffee. The cmn confirmed to Workforce Daily FWC president Justice Iain Ross had referred six applications to a ful...
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Murdoch scenario feared as Vic Uni retrenches NTEU officials
With enterprising bargaining set to commence before the end of the year, Victoria University (VU) has retrenched three National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) officials, including Victorian Division branch president Paul Adams. Adams, a senior lecturer who has worked at VU for close to 25 years, confirmed to Workforce Daily he had received a redun...
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Bupa nurses taking industrial action after 17 months of bargaining
One of Australia's largest aged care providers and the nurses' union are embroiled in industrial and legal action over resourcing and staffing issues, with the employer blaming tightening government funding across the industry. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Victoria has been negotiating with Bupa management for improved sta...
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Qld Govt backs down on extending industrial manslaughter to mining
Queensland's Labor government has aborted its bid to extend new industrial manslaughter laws to the resources sector. On Tuesday, the Qld Govt confirmed to Workforce Daily the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 would be extended to "apply to workers in mine, quarries, on oil and gas rigs and people working with explosi...
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Senate report on registered orgs integrity to drop later today
The Senate committee report on the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill has been scheduled to be tabled in Parliament later today ( WF 10/10/17 ) . The report will be available at this link after 4pm today. The inquiry received submissions from unions and employers, including the Australian Industry Group who cal...
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Bench finds cmr erred when found employee constructively dismissed
An assistant nurse who the Fair Work Commission found had been constructively dismissed by Bupa Aged Care is facing an appeal after a full bench found the Commissioner had wrongly applied the provisions where a worker has “ prima facie , resigned”. The bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Melanie Binet and Cmr Anna Lee ...
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Bureau to weather more strikes
Months of rolling strikes by Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) staff are set to continue for at least the next fortnight, with Melbourne workers protesting their conditions with another walk out from the Collins Street office on pressday. Community and Public Sector Union members at the bureau have engaged in legally protected 30 minute strikes in the af...
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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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Protest alleges underpayment of airport link workers
WFD: At presstime on Wednesday (October 11), 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...
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FWC bench bins bogus EA with no employees, refers to Fed Police
WFD: 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 f...
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Unions fail to block pathology lab putting pay offer direct to workers
WFD: 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 closed on Tuesday (October 10), follows the Fair Work Commission's September 4 termination of protected in...
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Labor's plan to prepare Australians for tech revolution
WFD: 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 (October 9), Chalmers said the impact of new technology on j...
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Deadline for integrity bill extended
WFD: 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 Educa...
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Management entity without employees refused right to lodge EA
WFD: 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 houseke...
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NTEU to resume talks with JCU, deal at CQU, sparks fly at Uni Tasmania
WFD: 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 “com...
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Qld Govt to extend industrial manslaughter laws to resources
WFD: 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 on Monday (October 9). If passed, indivi...
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