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70 employers already signed to ETU pattern EA paying 18%

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Thousands of Victorian electrical contract workers will gain 18% pay increases over the next four years, under the latest pattern enterprise agreement (EA) for contractors ( WF 17/07/2013 , WF 24/06/2011 ) . Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Victoria members are voting on the 2017-2021 ETU contracting EA, which will cover 10,000 workers, across 400 com...

Posts on private union Facebook page not out of reach for employers

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The Fair Work Commission has warned employee posts made on union-controlled and restricted access Facebook pages can be captured by employer social media policies. Senior Deputy President Ingrid Asbury made the observation in discussing the intersection of private social media use and workplace policies in her decision to grant bargaining orders ag...

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Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalist: Rajiv Maharaj. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 and peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter: @WorkforceTR

FWO recoups $30.6m for workers as requests for help up 9%

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The Fair Work Ombudsman's annual report reveals migrant workers, who make up just 6% of the workforce, were involved in 18% of disputes investigated by the watchdog in 2016/17, and accounted for 49% of court cases. In the 2016/17 year, the FWO resolved almost 27,000 requests for assistance involving a workplace dispute, a 9% increase on the 2015/16...

AWU v ROC court stoush on hold till Friday

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BREAKING NEWS: At presstime, the Australian Workers Union's court challenge to the police raid of its Melbourne and Sydney offices and bid to prevent access to documents seized has been adjourned to Friday morning, 10.15am (see ‘Farcical' AWU office raids prompt Federal Court challenge, below) . In response to the AWU's originating applicatio...

Union raids lead to calls for Cash's head

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Federal employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash is facing pressure to resign after one of her senior advisers admitted he tipped off media about police raids on Australian Workers' Union (AWU) offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Labor party members are calling for Cash's head, saying she misled parliament on Wednesday (October 25) when on five occa...

Catholic teachers back strike action

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Teachers at large Catholic primary schools in NSW and ACT have overwhelmingly endorsed strike action from November 1. The action is in support of their enterprise agreement (EA) demand for the right to arbitration ( WF 20/10/2017 ). Speaking to Workforce Daily this morning, Independent Education Union (IEU) acting secretary Gloria Taylor said it wa...

FWC rejects Vickers' request for pay data in Coles EA termination case

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In the ongoing Coles EA termination saga, the Fair Work Commission has knocked back worker Penny Vickers' request for additional roster information so she can update analysis to support her bid to junk the Coles 2011 enterprise agreement (EA) retrospectively for failing the Fair Work Act's better-off-overall-test (BOOT). Coles reverted to the 2011 ...

Fed Court gives Bupa green light to cut senior nursing positions

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Up to 23 clinical nursing positions will be cut from 26 Bupa nursing homes in Victoria after the Federal Court dismissed a challenge by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation's Victorian branch (ANMF). Bupa is proposing to abolish 53 care and 25 clinical manager positions in Victoria, and appoint 55 “clinical care managers” in ...

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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

ACTU fires opening shot at ROC in Worker Benefits bill Senate probe

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The peak union body has upped the ante on the besieged Registered Organisations Commissions (ROC), saying proposed new laws cracking down on union-controlled worker entitlement funds would give the agency an “unprecedented level” of power. It its submission to a Senate committee inquiry on the Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Wor...

Major overhaul of education system needed, productivity report finds

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WFD: Australia's skills system is not equipped to deal with the future labour market and governments should develop a proficiency-based skills assessment process, a landmark productivity report has revealed. The Productivity Commission's five-year Australian productivity review, released by Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday (October 24), found th...

Justice Tracey says no fine big enough to stop CFMEU law-breaking

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WFD: Yet another Federal Court judge has slammed the construction union for a “pattern of disregard for the law”, this time fining it $98,000 for blocking a non-union member from working on a construction site and coercing another to pay outstanding union dues. In agreed facts in proceedings brought by the Australian Building Constructi...

Nurses, carers to rally at Bupa office for safer staffing

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WFD: Nurses and carers will rally outside Bupa's Melbourne office on Wednesday (October 25) in an escalation of industrial negotiations with the aged care provider. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Victoria says its members want better staffing levels, a commitment to replace staff who take unplanned leave, or a clause about m...

Revoking holiday two weeks before trip no grounds for unfair dismissal

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WFD: A shop manager who claimed she was forced to resign after her employer revoked her leave two weeks before a 12-week European holiday was not unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. In a jurisdictional hearing, employer Gloss Accessories Pty Ltd argued it had not dismissed Amanda Bengel. Upholding that argument and dismissing th...

Pay rises coming v bargaining failing: parties argue as EA trends decline

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WFD: Providing more evidence business is giving up on enterprise bargaining, the latest trends in enterprise agreement (EA) bargaining report reveals a collapse in EA numbers. The Federal Department of Employment figures reveal just 846 (801 private sector; 45 public) EAs were approved in the June quarter 2017, down from 1,149 (1098 private; 55 pub...

Southall quits as ABCC deputy commissioner over Hadgkiss fiasco

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WFD: At press time, the Federal Government confirmed it has accepted the resignation of Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) Deputy Commissioner (legal) Tony Southall QC. Southall, who employment minister Senator Michaelia Cash appointed to the ABCC role in July, tended his resignation on October 16. Southall's resignation letter ...

DP Sams lashes Defence contractor Serco for reneging on post-EA deal

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has slammed Department of Defence contractor Serco for not honouring an undertaking it made post-enterprise agreement (EA) approval that it would pay ship masters the same as engineers. The cmn heard how in concluding negotiations with the Australian Maritime Officers' Union (AMOU) in 2015, Serco promised the union it ...

Woolies workers apply for industrial action as warehouse closure looms

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WFD: Some 2,000 Woolworths warehouse employees in Victoria and NSW may be heading for strike action over job security and wages after their union applied to take protected industrial action. Last week the National Union of Workers (NUW) applied to the Fair Work Commission for protected action ballots, to give them the right to vote on taking protec...

Worker with MS unfairly dismissed

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WFD: A nurse sacked after her allegedly deteriorating multiple sclerosis (MS) condition affected her work performance was unfairly dismissed. The Fair Work Commission said there was evidence of poor performance warranting dismissal. However, Deputy President Ian Masson said a failure by employer Knoxfield Medical Centre Pty Ltd trading as Colcheste...
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