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Adco sidesteps CFMEU with Fed Govt building code compliant EA

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WFD: In a significant decision, the Fair Work Commission has approved a major construction company's directly negotiated changes to an enterprise agreement (EA) after employees opted for the employer's draft EA over one put forward by the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). One of the FWC-approved changes included removing the CFMEU ...

Esso EAs face likely challenge following High Court ruling

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WFD: As the Esso Longford dispute drags into its 229th day, industrial harmony in Australia's oil and gas industry could be further disrupted by a likely challenge to the ability of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to have ordered the parties to conciliation over Esso's offshore agreement. In an application to the FWC expected to be heard next month ...

Union calls for Vic IR referral on bullying after DELWP case tossed

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WFD: The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) will up the ante by pushing to have Victoria's public servants covered under national anti-bullying laws after the Fair Work Commission tossed out a claim by senior Vic Govt official Scott Hamilton. Hamilton, who is the executive director of Renewable Energy at the Department of Environment Land Wat...

HWU sec Asmar cleared of ALP politically-motivated sacking

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WFD: Health Workers Union (HWU) secretary Dianne Asmar has been cleared of "directing" the sacking of a union official because he didn't back her husband, Australian Labor Party powerbroker David Asmar, at the 2017 ALP Victorian conference. Last December Fair Work Commission Deputy President Anne Gooley found HWU sec Asmar "directed" the sacking of...

CFMEU NSW boss Parker exits, replaced by TURC-tainted Greenfield

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WFD: Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) NSW construction branch boss Brian 'Sparkles' Parker has stood down as secretary and has been replaced by equally controversial figure, branch assistant sec Darren Greenfield. In January two years ago, Trade Union Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon concluded underworld figure George Alex gave cash...

Fish & chip shop battered with near-$200k penalty

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WFD: A Melbourne fish and chip business and its owner have been slugged almost $200,000 for underpaying 13 young workers about $26,700. The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) became aware of a "significant number of complaints" about Finn Fish Pty Ltd and its owner Abdul Haffez Bilwani in 2003. However none of those made it to court until now. The FWO accus...

'Heat of moment' dismissal after worker set himself on fire

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WFD: A tyre fitter has won an unfair dismissal claim after being sacked for "serious misconduct" by accidentally setting himself on fire at work. The Fair Work Commission (FWC) told the employer it showed "a manifest absence of control" for permitting the fire, labelling the worker and his boss "pyromaniacs". Joshua Smith worked as an on-call casua...

PSA in NSWIRC fighting govt decision to shift IRC to Parramatta

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WFD: The NSW Public Service Association (PSA) has slammed a state government decision to move the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) out of its building in Bridge Street in Sydney's CBD and relocate it to Parramatta. On February 2 the PSA was before the IRC on behalf of its approx 10 staff arguing the decision had been taken without consulta...

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Editor : Rajiv Maharaj, rajiv.maharaj@tr.com . Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681. Twitter : @WorkforceTR

Editorial Team

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Editor : Rajiv Maharaj, rajiv.maharaj@tr.com . Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681. Twitter : @WorkforceTR

Bringing in consultants ‘a new low' for weather bureau: union

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Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) management is refusing union conciliation, instead opting to bring in external consultants to ask workers why they rejected the latest workplace deal. In December BOM workers rejected a third proposed enterprise agreement (EA), with 59% voting no. Following the vote, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) wrote to ...

Leaving work early and shower faeces ‘incident' leads to dismissal

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A steelworker accused of defecating in a work shower and regularly walking off shifts, sometimes for more than six hours, has lost a Fair Work Commission (FWC) claim that his dismissal was unfair. In June last year BlueScope Steel sacked Walter Troiano for “inappropriate and socially unacceptable behaviour and unacceptable timekeeping” ...

Port Kembla Coal Terminal seeks to terminate agreement

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Trouble is escalating at the Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT) in NSW, with the company seeking to terminate its enterprise agreement (EA) in a Fair Work Commission (FWC) hearing set to get underway on February 22. It follows an unprecedented four-day lockout of workers in January - a move the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) claims...

CFMEU ‘inappropriate conduct' ruling junked, no joy for Hadgkiss

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A Full Court of the Federal Court has set aside a finding that Victorian construction union official Alex Tadic did not behave in an ‘inappropriate manner' towards a health & safety official at the Castlemaine Police Station site in 2014. The decision means the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) could be slugged with anothe...

Construction workers taunt ABCC with Eureka flag Twitter pic blitz

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Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) members have launched a social media campaign, tweeting pictures of workers brandishing Eureka flags at work. “Funny, it's almost as if construction workers don't care,” the union's official Twitter account said earlier today in response to dozens of pics of workers posing with the flag ...

Out-of-hours Facebook sacking sticks despite alleged MUA cover-up

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In a significant decision on out-of-hours conduct, the Fair Work Commission has upheld the sacking of a wharfie who sent a porn video to Facebook friends via its Messenger app after having had a few too many beers at the pub. However, 19 out of 20 of those Facebook friends were work colleagues, some of whom - including female co-workers -took offen...

ASU and Virgin strike 7.5% pay deal, retain part-time overtime

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The Australian Services Union (ASU) has struck a deal with Virgin Australia giving workers a 7.5% pay increase over three years. The first pay increase of 2.25% will be backdated to last July, followed by 2.5% in July this year, and 2.75% in 2019. Crucially, the union said, it talked down Virgin threats to cut penalty rates, reduce overtime for par...

No discrimination in dismissal but worker due 15 years' annual leave

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A long-term employee on an Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) has lost his claim he was sacked for a discriminatory reason or due to adverse action because of a hand injury and resultant workers' compensation payments. However the Federal Circuit Court found, despite the worker never taking annual leave over 15 years and probably believing he was...

Griffin Coal maintenance workers end strike but workforce decimated

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The 180-day Griffin Coal maintenance worker strike is over after the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the company signed off on a deal using the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) ‘new approaches' arbitration process. The deal struck behind closed doors in the cmn late yesterday includes maintenance workers taking a 20% pay cut, wh...

Pregnancy claim breached double-dipping rules: FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has knocked back a pregnancy-related unfair dismissal claim after finding it was using the same factual matrix to argue equivalent grounds and seek similar remedies to a discrimination complaint before the Federal Circuit Court. Tandoor cook Rajwinder Kaur Gill told Deputy President Geoff Bull she had been treated unfairly ...
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