Workers are urged to leave their workplaces on time tomorrow (November 22), as part of national Go Home On Time Day. The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work estimates unpaid overtime takes more than $130 billion from household incomes each year. On average full time workers spend six hours per week working unpaid overtime. Part time employ...
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Ongoing criminal proceedings delay Fed Court Grocon ruling
The Federal Court has determined liability in proceedings against the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy (CFMEU) alleging it engaged in secondary boycott actions against Grocon suppliers- but the outcome was only known to the parties at presstime due to confidentiality provisions ( WF 22/7/2016 ). The ACCC had alleged the CFMEU contravened s 4...
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Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalist s: Rajiv Maharaj, Steve Andrew. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 or peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Facebook relationships in spotlight in Coles' explicit pic sacking
Facebook and out-of-hours relationships between managers and employees have been thrown into the spotlight in a Fair Work Commission decision upholding the sacking of a Coles worker who texted his manager penis pictures. Commissioner Chris Simpson upheld Coles' decision to instantly dismiss Toowong (Queensland) store baker Jay Higgins in September ...
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Australia's space station stops work in protest
NASA staff in Australia stopped work for one hour this afternoon in an industrial protest that delayed the space communication handover from the US to pressure the Federal Government in long-running enterprise agreement (EA) talks. About 70 employees at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Tidbinbilla (CDSCC) stopped work at 2.20pm, nor...
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Biotech giant sees off consumer law-based ‘job for life' lawsuit
ASX-listed global biotech company CSL has seen off an adverse action lawsuit by a manager who claimed she was promised a job for life only to be let go because she complained about bullying. In a two-pronged claim, Ece Smrdelj not only accused CSL of adverse action under the Fair Work Act, but of misleading and deceptive conduct under the Competiti...
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Swiss company buys Aerocare
International aviation services company Swissport will acquire Australian ground handling operator Aerocare, under a new ownership agreement for an “undisclosed sum”. The announcement, just before press time (November 22), will see Swissport acquire Aerocare and its subsidiary companies - Skycare, Carbridge and EasyCart - from existing ...
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More dairy jobs cut in Victoria
Murray Goulburn (MG) has announced it will cut 73 jobs across four of its regional Victorian manufacturing sites, in an effort to further drive down costs. Management announced the changes in a meeting with staff on Tuesday (November 21), with 52 roles to go from Leongatha, five at Maffra, nine at Koroit and seven at Cobram. The dairy giant says vo...
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FWC extends scope of Linfox drivers EA to cover $140k manager
In a decision highlighting the need for care when drafting enterprise agreement (EA) coverage clauses, the Fair Work Commission has extended a Linfox site-specific EA intended to cover bulk drivers to include a manager paid above the high income threshold claiming unfair dismissal. Deputy President Anne Gooley ruled against Linfox's jurisdictional ...
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Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalist : Rajiv Maharaj. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 or peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Icy boycott delivered bargaining win: unions
Australians can enjoy their frozen treats guilt-free this summer, after unions ended a three week campaign to boycott Streets ice-creams in support of workers on Wednesday night (November 22). In what unions are calling a huge win, Streets' parent company Unilever announced it will withdraw an application to terminate its enterprise agreement (EA)....
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FWC rules Foxtel, Telstra & Sky associated entities for redeployment
In a significant case on genuine redundancy, the Fair Work Commission has found Telstra Group companies Foxtel, Telstra Media and Sky Cable are associated entities for the purposes of redeployment when laying off workers. The three companies are all part of the Telstra Group, which employs more than 40,000 people across the media and telecommunicat...
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Chin Chin embroiled in wage underpayment claim
Popular Melbourne restaurant Chin Chin is at the centre of a dispute with a former bartender, who claims she was underpaid $9,454 in wages and superannuation. Sorcha Harrop submitted an application to Melbourne Magistrates' Court's industrial division on Monday (November 20) to recover claimed unpaid entitlements and wages earned while working at t...
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Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalists : Steve Andrew, Rajiv Maharaj. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 or peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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ABCC takes CFMEU to court, this time in SA
The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is taking the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) to court over claims an official breached right of entry laws at an Adelaide construction site. The ABCC says it has lodged a statement of claim in the Federal Court. It alleges a South Australian CFMEU organiser tried to exerc...
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ASU Vic branch ousts sec Duffy for pocketing $100k super board fees
The Australian Services Union (Victorian & Tasmanian authorities and services branch) has confirmed it has booted out its secretary Richard Duffy for pocketing close to $100,000 in superannuation board fees. Michelle Jackson has been appointed acting branch secretary, the union has confirmed to Workforce Daily . It axed Duffy after a union-comm...
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Employers and unions to battle over right to part-time work
Employers say they will strongly oppose an Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU) test case application seeking new rights for parents and carers to undertake part-time work and reduced hours ( WF 20/9/2017 ). A Fair Work Commission full bench will hear the Family Friendly Arrangements test case next month (December 12-22). If approved, award-cov...
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Jackson's alleged fraud revealed
WFD: Kathy Jackson used several Health Services Union (HSU) issued credit cards to pay for lavish hotel rooms, a treadmill, furniture, flowers, overseas flights, electronics and art work, court documents obtained by Workforce Daily allege. The charge sheets allege Jackson is liable for about $470,000 spent on the cards between 2003 and 2011. The do...
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Ongoing criminal proceedings delay Fed Court Grocon ruling
WFD: The Federal Court has determined liability in proceedings against the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy (CFMEU) alleging it engaged in secondary boycott actions against Grocon suppliers- but the outcome was only known to the parties at presstime due to confidentiality provisions ( WF 22/7/2016 ). The ACCC had alleged the CFMEU contravene...
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Golfing electrician sacked for using Twisties to foil GPS detection
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has confirmed the sacking of an Electrical Trades Union (ETU) delegate who used DIY anti-surveillance techniques to play golf when he should have been at work. Water Corporation WA contractor Aroona Alliance sacked instrument electrical technician and ETU delegate Tom Colella after an anonymous tip-off, saying he had b...
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