The unemployment rate has risen from 5.1% in August to 5.4% in September, the latest ABS Labour Force figures have revealed. Unemployment increased 38,800 to 662,700 in September. The ABS said a big jump in full-time work - up by 32,100 to 8,107,000 - was offset by a fall in part-time work, down 17,700 to 3,404,900. The participation rate increased...
Unemployment rate up to 5.4%
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Fremantle Port ups offer to 15% but backflips on job security
WFD: The Fremantle Port Authority upped its pay offer to its striking port workers to 15% over three years but then suddenly removed job security clauses, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) official Will Tracey told Workforce Daily on Wednesday (October 10). Tracey, the Western Australia branch assistant secretary, said Port upped its offer from 12%...
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ACTU staffers angry over sackings
The ACTU HQ was “like a morgue” at press time with staff “very angry” following the shock sacking of 20 staffers late yesterday, Workforce sources said. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver and assistant secretary Tim Lyons informed staff of their fate in a suddenly-convened meeting yesterday. The pair revealed almost one-fifth of the...
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Bankwest manager accused of giving Hitler salute to woman
The Federal Court has ordered Bankwest to provide CCTV footage of one of its regional managers allegedly giving an employee a Nazi salute, as part of discovery proceedings in the worker's sex and racial discrimination claim. Justice Anthony Besanko denied two of business development manager Miriam Halpern's discovery requests, including documents r...
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New discrimination claims allowed in adverse action application
The Federal Magistrates' Court has affirmed the broad scope general protections applicants have to add claims by allowing a dismissed employee to include several new workplace rights allegedly breached by her employer's adverse action but which she did not raise in mandatory conciliation. The scope for applicants to change their court applications ...
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PC report backs FWA super panel
The Productivity Commission (PC) has backed setting up a panel within Fair Work Australia (FWA) to assess and select default superannuation funds for listing in modern awards, rejecting calls for an independent expert panel. The PC's recommended default superannuation panel (DSP) would comprise the FWA president plus an equal number of full-time FW...
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Defence sacking ‘opportunistic' and ‘extreme'
Fair Work Australia has awarded six months' wages totalling $27,940 to a Department of Defence worker sacked for allowing her husband to access a restricted Defence computer network - after ruling Defence's dishonesty and unethical conduct findings were “inappropriately extreme”. The tribunal heard Jocelyn Labuguen joined the Australian...
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Govt releases initial IR reforms
The Federal Government has released its first wave of reforms to the Fair Work Act, covering largely “non-controversial” changes to unfair dismissal and structural arrangements - and processes for Fair Work Australia. Announcing the proposed amendments at midday today (October 15), WR minister Bill Shorten said the govt had decided to &...
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FWA files Fed Court action against Thomson for alleged breaches
At press time, the Fair Work Australia general manager had filed proceedings in the Federal Court alleging multiple breaches of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act and union rules by MP Craig Thomson during his time as HSU national secretary. The 194-page statement of claim alleged Thomson used HSU-issued credit credits in his name to buy ...
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Lend Lease moves to head off contract axe fears
Lend Lease is set to hold talks with the Vic Government to head off fears the company's new national agreement with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) breaches the state's construction industry code, potentially excluding the company from state govt contracts. A federal workplace agreement between the company and the union in...
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ALAEA moves to arbitration for 5% pay increases
The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) is foregoing flagged industrial action and betting on arbitration to secure 15% pay rises over three years for workers at Cobham airlines. ALAEA secretary Steve Purvinas confirmed to Workforce the union and the regional airline had agreed via conciliation to have Fair Work Australia (FW...
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Unionist turned employer adviser representing Thomson
Exclusive Workforce can reveal that former NSW Labor Council organiser and ex-Industrial Relations Commissioner, Chris McArdle, is representing former Health Services Union secretary Craig Thomson against Fair Work Australia's (FWA) allegations of misuse of union funds. McArdle, employment lawyer and principal of McArdle Legal, told Workforce Daily...
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HSU seeks to avoid statute of limitations in Thomson case
The national Health Services Union (HSU) has given the go ahead to seek recovery of monies from former secretary Craig Thomson if he is found to have misused members' funds and if Fair Work Australia's (FWA) recovery efforts fail. HSU secretary Chris Brown told Workforce Daily the national executive last week approved funds for lawyers to consider ...
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FWA name change sets up potential conflict
Federal workplace relations minister Bill Shorten's public support for Fair Work Commission as the new name of Fair Work Australia (FWA) has set up a potential conflict with his tribunal head, who has previously supported “Fair Work” being removed from the title. In the foreword to FWA's annual report released yesterday (October 16), Pr...
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Ross in Estimates: HSU investigation ‘nothing to do' with FWA
Appearing before Senates Estimates this morning (October 17), Fair Work Australia (FWA) President Justice Ross cited “sustained criticism” about the time FWA took to complete investigations into the Health Services Union (HSU) as further reason for a name change for the tribunal. “Despite the fact these [HSU] investigations have n...
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Correction
Workforce Daily 18431 reported Professor Andrew Stewart as saying the Fair Work Act's general protections would likely act to prevent the Vic Govt denying Lend Lease the right to tender for state contracts”. It should have read “could” act.
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