Editor : Rajiv Maharaj. Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 or peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Unions target Exxon-Mobil tax avoidance
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is mounting a new campaign to “put Exxon-Mobil's tax avoidance on the national stage”, as a community protest in Longford, Victoria, that includes retrenched workers enters its 218 th day. ACTU secretary Sally McManus will visit the gas plant on Thursday morning (Jan 25) to meet with the 200...
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Finally, Coles workers to vote on new EA with $475 bonus incentive
More than 74,000 Coles workers will finally get to vote on a new enterprise agreement (EA) with the supermarket giant and Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) signing off on a new deal to go to ballot. The EA lifts penalty rates on night shifts and weekends with small increases for weekday ordinary hours workers. The deal brings...
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Union appeals ATO ‘hot-desk' decision
WFD: The unions representing Australian Tax Office (ATO) workers is appealing a Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision that allows the agency to roll out “hot-desking” across its offices. The Australian Services Union (ASU) and Community and Public Services Union (CPSU) argued the ATO was prohibited from adopting hot-desking for non-fieldw...
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Pregnant worker not warned before sacking
WFD: A travel consultant sacked without warning while pregnant has been awarded more than $19,000 in compensation, in part as she “is a victim of a general reluctance to hire pregnant people”. After three years' employment Green Travel Service dismissed Bernice Zhang on September 14 last year citing a “constant lack of performance...
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FWO slams unpaid ‘work experience'
WFD: The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has hit out at a Brisbane labour hire business for using 10 employees as a source of free labour by calling it “work experience”, and then profiting from their work. “Unpaid placements or ‘internships' are legitimate in certain cases - for example, where they are part of an approved program...
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No preference for Aussies over foreign visa works in redundancies
WFD: In decision likely to raise the ire of blue collar unions, the Fair Work Commission has ruled Australian workers do not have preference over foreign skilled-visa workers for redeployment in cases of genuine redundancy. Commissioner Geoffrey Bull made the decision in an unfair dismissal case brought by search and rescue crewman Paul Rowland and...
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WA reviews ‘outdated' IR system
WFD: The WA Government has received 64 written submissions to its industrial relations system review that is designed to ensure it is contemporary, fair and accessible, the govt says. It is the first full review of the state's IR system in 16 years during which time the employment environment has changed with a majority of WA workers now employed b...
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Murdoch Uni test case alleges union social media posts were coercion
WFD: Murdoch University is suing the head of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) WA branch Gabe Gooding in a test case exploring when and if social media posts can amount to coercion under s343 of the Fair Work Act. The case is being heard by Justice John Gilmour in the Federal Court. The university claimsGooding and industrial officer Ale...
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Trucking boss weighs in on driver safety
WFD: A major employer of truck drivers has written an open letter to the Prime Minister about the “dire road safety problem”, while the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) has accused the govt of having “blood on its hands” over a rise in truck crashes (below) . Toll Group managing director Michel Byrne said Australia called on t...
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Don't play ‘Russian roulette' with drug testing: DP Sams
WFD: In a significant decision on workplace drug and alcohol testing, the Fair Work Commission has warned employees they are playing “Russian roulette” if they think passing less sophisticated on-site urine tests is enough and they won't be caught out by further tests using superior equipment in laboratories. Deputy President Peter Sams...
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Horror crash derails NSW Govt desperate bid to stop rail strike
WFD: NSW Government talks with the Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) NSW branch to avert a full-blown strike this Australia Day long weekend were suspended on Monday after a horrifying train crash at Richmond Station in Sydney's north-west. NSW transport minister Andrew Constance and RTBU NSW secretary Alex Claassens were in eleventh hour talks to sto...
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Tribunal ends Fiji airport lockout after Aust and NZ unions protest
WFD: More than 200 airport workers in Fiji will return to work after a month-long lockout. On Dec 16, Air Terminal Services (ATS) locked out the workers at Fiji's main airport, including check-in staff, baggage handlers, engineers and caterers, after they attended a stop-work meeting over alleged mismanagement and poor conditions. Unions claimed an...
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Editorial Team
Editor : Rajiv Maharaj. Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 or peter.schwab@tr.com . Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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ACTU says right to strike dead as FWC suspends NSW trains strike
The Fair Work Commission has suspended Sydney & NSW Trains industrial action including a strike planned for Monday. Senior Deputy President Jonathan Hamberger accepted submissions by NSW IR Minister Dominic Perrottet and by Sydney Trains & NSW Trains that an overtime ban, which started today, and Monday's full strike would be harmful to pub...
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ALP examining FW Act changes O'Connor
Federal opposition employment and workplace relations minister Brendan O'Connor has told Workforce Labor may change the Fair Work Act to “motivate good faith bargaining” if it wins the next election. It would do so as “Labor has concerns about the collapse of enterprise bargaining”, O'Connor said. He said a Labor govt would ...
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Beer, seafood producers and food couriers among jobs of future
Australia's hunger for seafood, craft beer, food delivery and surfing the net are driving the next wave of jobs, IBIS World industry statistics reveal. Data storage services, craft beer production, aquaculture, preschool education and courier pick-up and delivery services will post the fastest employment growth over the next five years, IBIS World ...
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Agriculture multifactor productivity soars, construction takes a dive
Multifactor productivity (MFP) declined significantly in the construction industry in 2016-17, down 7.3%, new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have revealed . MFP is a measure of economic performance comparing goods and services produced relative to inputs including labour costs. “Growth was weighed down by reductions in new mining and h...
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3 days missing = abandonment of employment junked in mod awards
Modern award clauses deeming a worker to have abandoned their employment after three continuous days of unexplained absence will be junked. A Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Val Gostencnik and Commissioner Anna Lee Cribb - made the ruling as part of the cmn's four-yearly review of modern awards....
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Exxon-Mobil says unions spreading ‘misinformation'
Exxon-Mobil has rejected Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) claims it has “abused” the industrial relations system to “cut the pay and destroy the conditions of local workers”. The ACTU is on press day (Jan 25) outside the company's Longford gas plant launching a campaign to “put Exxon-Mobil's tax avoidance on t...
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