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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

Significant decisions 2017

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Employer held liable for out-of-hours assault An employer has lost its claim it was not liable for an employee's sexual assault of a female colleague that happened in the worker's private residence at 5am ( WF 23/01/2017 ) . (STU v JKL (Qld) Pty Ltd & Ors [2016], QCAT 505 , 6/12/2016). Ignoring redeployment ‘swap' meant redundancies not g...

Workers mad as hell and not going to take it any more

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Comment: 2017 has seen the power pendulum swing dramatically in favour of employers but events in the past month, including the Streets boycott to Webb Dock (below), indicate that may all change in the New Year with signs it could all be ready to blow. The year has been largely about reduced employment security with employers shifting contracted wo...

Webb Dock picket over, VICT agrees to pay worker stay at home cash

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Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) have cut an extraordinary deal to end the three-week-old illegal picket at Webb Dock. The company will pay stood down worker Richard Lunt (see below) full pay and entitlements to not to come to work until his adverse action claim is heard some time next year....

Webb Dock goes back to the future with union 1988 war cry - ‘It's on!'

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The community action/illegal picket at Webb Dock was still underway at press time. The Electrical Trades Union (ETU), one of several unions who have been supporting the injunction -barred maritime and construction unions ( WF 12/12/2017 , WF 13/12/2017 ) at the three-week-old blockade, posted on Facebook “20 Years on from the Patricks Dispute...

No second appeal chance for trucking firm despite bench error

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Putting parties through a second hearing of a trucking company's appeal against a requirement it pay meal breaks to shift workers would be a “charade”, with the same outcome likely, the Federal Court has found ( WF 20/9/2017 ). While acknowledging a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench erred in refusing permission to appeal when permis...

‘Racist' work-for-the-dole program must be scrapped: ACTU

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The ACTU has renewed calls for a Federal Government work for the dole scheme to be scrapped after a Senate inquiry found that the program is causing harm to its mainly Indigenous workforce. The report has urged immediate replacement of the community development program's (CDP) compliance and penalty regime with a new system after finding it handed ...

Family-friendly work test case moves to Melbourne

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has wrapped up its Sydney hearings into the Australian Council of Trade Unions' (ACTU) family-friendly work test case, with the hearings moving to Melbourne. On pressday (December 15), the cmn confirmed the scheduled three day hearing in Melbourne has been reduced to two - December 21 and 22. The three-day Sydney h...

Significant decision (cont)

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Fed Court sets out union liability for their officials' RoE breaches The Federal Court upheld the CFMEU had accessorial liability under Fair Work Act s550 for the action of two officials who breached RoE provisions at a SA construction site in 2014 ( WF 18/07/2017 ). (ABCC v McDermott (No 2) [2017], FCA 797 , 17/7/17) ABCC loses RoE loophole case I...

Significant decisions (final)

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FWC bench overturns ‘harsh' beer sacking A FWC full bench quashed a finding a ship captain's sacking for consuming nine full-strength beers before a shift was harsh ( WF 7/07/17 ), ( WF 20/10/2017 ). (Farstad Shipping v Rust, FWCFB 4738, 10/10/2017) CFMEU is most recidivist corporate offender The Federal Circuit Court imposed a max $306k pena...

Domino's cops bargaining order

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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered Domino's Pizza to bargain in good faith with the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), postponing a vote on a proposed enterprise agreement (EA). Domino's is negotiating a new EA with 20,000 workers across 660 stores, after 27 expired agreements were terminated by the FWC in November ( WF 3/11/17 )....

Forget UK law - Australian Uber drivers are not workers

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A Melbourne Uber driver has lost an unfair dismissal claim after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruled he was not anemployee within the meaning of the Fair Work Act. Notably the FWC rejected the driver's argument a recent United Kingdom decision where an Uber driver was found to be a worker for the purposes of the country's Employment Rights (ER) Ac...

Cash ordered to hand over raid documents

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Newly-appointed innovation and jobs minister Senator Michaelia Cash has handed over documents relating to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on Australian Workers' Union (AWU) offices, after she lost a court challenge against the subpoena. AWU headquarters in Melbourne and Sydney were raided by AFP officers on October 24, searching for docum...

Justice Tracey stings CFMEU $242k for RoE law-breaking at Footscray

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The Federal Court has imposed more than $240,000 in penalties against the CFMEU and two of its officials for deliberately disrupting work on a critical rail infrastructure project in Melbourne in early 2014. The Court found CFMEU officials Joe Myles and Drew MacDonald abused their rights of entry when they impeded a concrete pour and were "arrogant...

Brawl over cowboy hat justifies dismissal

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A Pilbara mine worker who “chest-bumped” another worker while attempting to retrieve his cowboy hat has lost an unfair dismissal case as the tribunal found he had engaged in serious misconduct. Bechtel Construction (Australia) Pty Ltd dismissed Kristian Weir, a full-time rigger on the Chevron's Wheatstone Project in WA's Pilbara, on Jul...

Pioneer Personnel avoids being taken to the cleaners

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A court has reduced wage underpayment penalties for a cleaning provider that subcontracts cleaners to major retailers, including Myer, Woolworths and Target, due to a misleading Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) press release. In a case before the Federal Circuit Court (FCC), Pioneer Personnel Pty Ltd was found to have underpaid nine employees $5,200 over ...

Aerocare fails in ‘misconceived' attempt to give casuals benefits

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Air services provider Aerocare has failed in its latest attempt to appeal a Fair Work Commission (FWC) rejection of its enterprise agreement (EA), after a full bench found its undertaking to provide benefits to casuals was “misconceived” as they were not covered by and did not vote on the agreement. The appeal contained three grounds - ...

Employer & accountant slugged $198k for fleecing Korean interns

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The Federal Circuit Court has slugged a fast food employer just shy of $200,000 for recruiting interns from Korea to experience Australian life only to rob them of more than $50,000 in wages. Judge Phillip Dowdy said a relevant factor in the hefty fines was the fast food industry's “notorious” record in recent years for underpaying work...

‘Good eater' unfairly sacked for consuming cafe food

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A former NSW cafe manager has been awarded more than $3,000 in compensation after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) found he was unfairly dismissed for “eating excessively” while working. On April 22 last year, Jordan Wales was fired from Parkside Patisserie, in Picton, after allegedly consuming sandwiches, sausage rolls, coffees, juices a...

How do family friendly work arrangements stack up vs OECD?

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The Fair Work Commission has published three background papers on family friendly work arrangements in modern awards, including ones that look at how such arrangements work in the UK and other OECD countries. The cmn is looking at family friendly work arrangements as part of its four-yearly review of modern awards. • Background Paper 1 : iden...
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