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FWC issues anti-bullying orders as librarians' feud gets out of hand

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WFD: 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, ...

Blue-collar unions seek to block BCC pay offer to staff

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WFD: The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) has on Monday 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 work...

Hilco Australia successful in striking out key parts of claim

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WFD: 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 c...

Veteran yard hand unfairly sacked at request of customer

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WFD: 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,...

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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

Glencore condemned for wrongly claiming electoral cmn running vote

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The chief mining union has accused Glencore of deceit over its claims the Australian Electoral Commission was overseeing the company's latest pay offer to locked-out Oaky North miners ( WF 6/10/2017 ). In a statement to Workforce this morning (October 13), Glencore repeated a claim made in the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday (October 11) i...

Contractor fined $255k and director $51k for underpaying s457 workers

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Cleaning contractor Goldfinger Facility Management Pty Ltd has been fined $255,000 and its director Blagojce Djoneski $51k after underpaying s457 visa workers doing housekeeping and cleaning roles at Perth's Melbourne Hotel. Based on admissions, the Federal Circuit Court found Goldfinger and Djoneski were guilty of 12 breaches of the Fair Work Act ...

Brisbane workers receive more than $70,000 in underpayments

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An open cut mine supervisor received $40,000 in entitlements after his employer was caught out by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). The Kangaroo Point mine is one of three Brisbane employers recently caught underpaying its workers. The FWO was forced to intervene and inform the mine of its legal obligations to the retrenched employee, after he missed ...

ANMF head to depart

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The leader of Australia's biggest union is stepping down to pursue a career in law. Lee Thomas, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation's (ANMF) federal secretary of eight years, announced her departure at the ANMF biennial conference in Hobart on Thursday. Thomas is finishing law studies and will be admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme C...

Unions considering ‘very difficult' High Court challenge

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Unions may take the penalty rates matter to the High Court, as they continue their fight against cuts to weekend and public holiday wages in hospitality, fast food, pharmacy and retail sectors. Maurice Blackburn employment law principal Giri Sivaraman, who advised the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) after the original Fair Work decision o...

Qld Parliament passes industrial manslaughter laws

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Queensland's Labor government has successfully passed industrial manslaughter laws - but without covering the resources sector. The Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 got up with the help of crossbenchers 43 to 39 late on Thursday (Oct 12). The new laws mean individuals could face up to 20 years in jail and companies f...

Okay North mine abuse claims should be taken to police, not media

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Allegations of abuse on the Glencore Oaky North mine picket lines should be taken to the police, not the media, according to district president for the Construction Forestry Mining Energy (CFMEU) mining and energy division Queensland Stephen Smyth ( WF 6/10/2017 ). News reports in the Courier Mail on Wednesday claimed picketers had abused mine staf...

Knott blasts ‘social justice warriors'; bench overturns ‘harsh' finding

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Weeks after a scathing Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) opinion piece was published, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has quashed a finding a ship captain's sacking for consuming nine full-strength beers before a shift was harsh ( WF 7/07/17 ). In an op-ed last month, AMMA chief executive Steve Knott blasted what he claimed was the rise...

Immigration Dept pay case full bench arbitration hearings start

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At press time today, Federal Government lawyers had made opening arguments in the long-awaited Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench arbitration hearings to settle a pay deal between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and its 13,500 employees. The bench will attempt to resolve a four-year dispute between DIBP and the Communi...

CPSU ups ante on Centrelink call centre outsourcing to Serco

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The Community and Public Sector Union has secured more than 13,800 petition signatures as of today as it ups its protests against the Federal Government's decision to outsource Centrelink call centre jobs to multinational Serco. Federal human services minister Alan Tudge last week revealed Serco subsidiary Serco Citizen Services Pty Ltd would start...

Holden shuts up shop this week

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Car manufacturing will come to an end in Australia this Friday (October 20), as Holden's Adelaide assembly plant shuts its doors and leaves about 900 workers unemployed. In preparation for the plant's closure, on Sunday (Oct 15) the South Australian Government announced an additional $600,000 in support for displaced workers. Automotive transformat...

Fortescue Metals Group ‘premature' PIP sacking decision set for appeal

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A Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision supporting Fortescue Metals Group's (FMG) sacking of an inventory controller one week into a performance improvement plan (PIP) is set for appeal. A FWC full bench - President Justice Iain Ross, Deputy President Alan Colman, and Cmr Tanya Cirkovic - found Deputy President Melanie Binet's decision in May of this...

Truckies protest conditions outside Aldi supermarkets

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Aldi Australia and the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) are at loggerheads over the union's accusation that truck drivers are pressured by the company to break road rules to deliver its products to supermarkets. Hundreds of Aldi truck drivers and members of contracting companies protested about their conditions outside Aldi supermarkets in Sydney, Me...

Vic Uni rejects NTEU claims officials are being targeted for redundancy

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Victoria University has rejected claims it has singled out National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) officials for redundancy. Last week, Workforce Daily revealed VU had moved to retrench three NTEU officials,including Victorian Division branch president Paul Adams ( WFD 12/10/17 ). “Assertions regarding targeting individuals are completely fa...

Plumber sacked for allegedly working for rival ‘unfairly dismissed'

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A roof plumber sacked for allegedly working for a competitor while on sick leave with a “stomach bug” was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. Shane Di Gioacchino was sacked by Kmercial Contractors Pty Ltd after the office manager allegedly videoed him working on the roof of his former boss's house while on sick leave...
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