Speculation is rife ACTU president will quit the peak union body to run for Labor in the Federal inner Melbourne seat of Batman. It's expected MP David Feeney will vacate the seat today due to uncertainty over his citizenship status and a looming High Court challenge. The ensuing by-election - which some news outlets speculate could be as early as ...
Ged Kearney tipped to contest Batman by-election of Labor
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Slater & Gordon EA approved
The Australian Services Union (ASU) and national law firm Slater & Gordon have signed off on a new enterprise agreement (EA) for lawyers. The Slater & Gordon Lawyers EA has been approved by the Fair Work Commission. It took effect on Monday, January 29. The ASU confirmed lawyers would receive backpay, with the payment to be made on Feb 13, ...
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Public sector union protests cuts to school support staff
On pressday (February 1), Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members were holding a lunchtime vigil in protest over the WA Government's plan to axe 400 school support staff. The action in Perth's Wellington Square saw members plant 400 red hearts in the ground symbolising jobs being targeted by govt. The axed roles include project officers, a...
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Glencore goes ‘nuclear' option to terminate Oaky North EA
WFD: Glencore has confirmed it has applied to the Fair Work Commission to terminate the enterprise agreement for its Oaky North coalmine with a lockout of workers having reached 200 days plus. The company told Workforce Daily it was left with “no option” after what it believed to be an in-principle agreement struck with the Construction...
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Glencore EA termination move over the top and underhanded: CFMEU
WFD: The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) says Glencore's application to the Fair Work Commission to terminate the Oaky North Mine 2012 enterprise agreement is premature and "disproportionate" (see above, Glencore goes ‘nuclear' option to terminate Oaky North EA ) . The multinational mining giant applied to FWC to terminate t...
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Domino's deal passes first hurdle
WFD: Domino's Pizza's new enterprise agreement (EA) has passed the first test after it was voted through by 89% of those who took part in the ballot. However, the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) will challenge the EA “on numerous grounds” in the Fair Work Commission (FWC), the union's secretary told Workforce Daily . Workers...
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Ged Kearney tipped to contest Batman by-election of Labor
WFD: Speculation is rife ACTU president will quit the peak union body to run for Labor in the Federal inner Melbourne seat of Batman. MP David Feeney vacated the seat on Thursday (February 1) due to uncertainty over his citizenship status and a looming High Court challenge. The ensuing by-election - which some news outlets speculate could be as ear...
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Super union's fate to be decided
WFD: The fate of the proposed "super union" amalgamation will be decided in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) on February 2 (see latest coverage from day one of hearings above). The hearing is before Deputy President Val Gostencnik in Melbourne at 10am. Union members voted in support of merging the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), the Construction F...
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Union accuses VicSuper of ‘trickery'
WFD: An attempt by the Victorian Government's superannuation fund to pass an enterprise agreement (EA) before bargaining has backfired, after the union threatened to slap good faith bargaining orders on the employer. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Victoria said when VicSuper staff returned from their Christmas holidays, human resource...
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Linfox cops FWC bench broadside for appeal bid in TWU coverage case
WFD: A Fair Work Commission full bench has refused Linfox permission to appeal a decision extending the scope of a Transport Workers Union (TWU) site-specific enterprise agreement (EA) to include a manager on $150,000 a year. In a blunt takedown, the bench - President Justice Iain Ross, Deputy President Abbey Beaumont and Commissioner Leigh Johns -...
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Pet food workers put down tools
WFD: Workers at a new Victorian feed mill are striking for 24 hours after six months of negotiations failed to deliver an agreed pay increase. When the plant in Lara, Vic, opened in early 2017 Ridley Corporation received about $800,000 in state government funding to support the mill's development. One year later, the National Union of Workers (NUW)...
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Sharan Burrow plays key role in ending Qatar World Cup ‘slavery'
WFD: Former ACTU president Sharan Burrow looks set to win a significant battle for the international labour movement with the Qatar Government indicating it will bring to an end the controversial ‘kafala' system it is using to build stadia and infrastructure for the 2022 Football World Cup. Burrow, the head of the International Trade Union Co...
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Court sends big warning to visa-holder employers with $97k fine
WFD: Hospitality industry employers using sponsored visa have been put on notice after the Federal Circuit Court slugged an employer just shy of $100,000 for rorting an Italian cook. The wages theft and exploitation included the use of a brazen ‘cash-back' scheme whereby the cook had to pay more than $200 a week from her wages back to the com...
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Physio failed to prove was employee
WFD: A physiotherapist has lost a small claims attempt to recover more than $17,000 in unpaid leave after a court ruled she was an independent contractor and not an employee. In 2009 Ilona Grunbaum began working as a physiotherapist at Body Moves, in North Caulfield, Victoria. Grunbaum provided physiotherapy services for Body Moves clients for eigh...
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Bench says trainee's harassment evidence believable and supported
WFD: A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected a business manager's appeal arguments the Cmn had had insufficient evidence to support a young sales trainee's claim he told her not to worry about two male customers: “Just show them your tits, you will be fine.” Phillip Parker argued there had been no witnesses to that or an earlier ...
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Public sector union protests cuts to school support staff
WFD: Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members held a lunchtime vigil on February 1, in protest over the WA Government's plan to axe 400 school support staff. The action in Perth's Wellington Square saw members plant 400 red hearts in the ground symbolising jobs being targeted by govt. The axed roles include project officers, administration ...
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Slater & Gordon EA approved
The Australian Services Union (ASU) and national law firm Slater & Gordon have signed off on a new enterprise agreement (EA) for lawyers. The Slater & Gordon Lawyers EA has been approved by the Fair Work Commission. It took effect on Monday, January 29. The ASU confirmed lawyers would receive backpay, with the payment to be made on Feb 13, ...
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TWU slugged 271K for bolstering register with non-financial members
In an extraordinary rebuke to unions inflating their membership registers with non-financial members, the Federal Court has today fined the Transport Workers Union (TWU) $271,362. Justice Nye Perram found NSW and WA TWU branch breaches of record-keeping requirements of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 were deliberate, albeit in ign...
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Next generation won't know sick days or annual leave: McManus
EXCLUSIVE: Australia's industrial relations system is out of balance, with power having been taken from workers and handed to their employers, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) national secretary Sally McManus says. McManus sat down with Workforce Daily to chew through the biggest issues facing unions and working people. She said 2017 was a...
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