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McManus to speak at MEAA Fed Council pow wow

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ACTU secretary Sally McManus will speak at the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) biennial federal council meeting on Friday (February 23). The two-day meeting will see members vote for new council members as well as presidents and vice-presidents of the five constituent sections of the MEAA - Media, Equity, NZ Equity, Entertainment, Crew and...

Business council slams ‘sugar hit' wage rises

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Increased productivity, more exports and a greater capacity to get into new markets are all needed to boost employment and wages, Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott says. Speaking on February 19, Westacott criticised the lack of incentives for businesses to invest further in Australia. “Wages go up when companies...

O'Connor foreshadows FWC min wage tweak to create living wage

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Shadow workplace relations minister Brendan O'Connor has revealed a Labor government would consider tweaking the Fair Work Commission (FWC)'s minimum wage review “parameters” to create a so-called living wage. Asked to “unpack” where he stood on making a living wage a reality, O'Connor told Sky News on Monday (Feb 19): ̶...

Laundy slams ruse to neuter FWC

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Workplace relations minister Craig Laundy accused O'Connor of “backtracking”, saying his living wage comments (above) were “nothing more than an attempt to disguise Labor's real agenda”. “There is no doubt Labor wants to override its own independent umpire and legislate a reckless cost blow out, which over a million sm...

‘Super union' decision delayed as employers attempt final challenge

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Employers have forced a further directions hearing next week on the proposed “super union” merger over revelations one of the unions is facing Victorian Supreme Court proceedings. For more than two weeks unions and employer groups have been awaiting a decision by Fair Work Commission Deputy President Val Gostencnik on the proposed amalg...

Bullying appeal lacks substance

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has thrown out a worker's bullying appeal, saying “prejudice” and stress caused by a lawyer's presence during the determinative conference was not of “sufficient merit” to warrant an appeal. The full bench -Vice President Peter Hatcher and Commissioners Paula Spencer and Jennifer Hunt - said...

Bullying appeal lacks substance

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has thrown out a worker's bullying appeal, saying “prejudice” and stress caused by a lawyer's presence during the determinative conference was not of “sufficient merit” to warrant an appeal. The full bench -Vice President Peter Hatcher and Commissioners Paula Spencer and Jennifer Hunt - said...

Airbnb in talks with UV to introduce ‘living wage' cleaning rates

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Airbnb is in talks with United Voice to introduce a “living wage standard” where property owners would have to pay cleaners the award minimum rates, the global sharing giant has confirmed to Workforce Daily . Airbnb said it was looking at an hourly wage equal to or above the three-tiered Cleaning Award rates, which range from $19.55 to ...

Unions warns NAB workers may be left in ‘unemployment scrap heap'

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The National Australia Bank (NAB) is “aggressively closing branches” and leaving 6,000 soon-to-be-unemployed people without the skills needed to continue working in the banking sector, the Finance Sector Union (FSU) has warned. This week the bank announced it had begun its restructure, which will see thousands of roles made redundant ov...

Almost 100 jobs culled from ABS

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will slash a further 97 jobs under its redundancy program, meaning one-in-eight staff have lost their jobs since the Coalition government was elected five years ago, the public sector union says. Soon Google will know more about Australia than the govt does, the Community & Public Sector Union (CPSU) sa...

Dastyari aggressor guilty for not removing Toll uniform video

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A far right activist has been found guilty of contempt for not removing a video from social media showing him wearing a Toll uniform while abusing former Senator Sam Dastyari in a Melbourne pub. Toll Transport took Neil Erikson, who has links to Patriot Blue and United Patriots Front fair right groups, to the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) in December...

VICT hits MUA and CFMEU with contempt action

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Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) has launched contempt of court proceedings against the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) over last year's Webb Dock blockade ( WF 29/11/2017 , WF 01/12/2017 , WF 06/12/2017 ) . The action comes on top of an $8m damages claim VICT filed against...

Glencore lockout takes new twist with CFMEU cooling off bid

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Mining giant Glencore says it will junk its application to terminate the Oaky North coal mine enterprise agreement (EA) if it can strike a deal with the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) before the case is heard. Meantime, the union has countered by asking the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to order a cooling-off period to allow the par...

Editorial Team

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

FWC slams door on uni academics calculating own paid overtime

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The Fair Work Commission has shot down a union bid to have academics paid overtime for unsupervised, self-directed research activities. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) told the cmn's full bench four-yearly review of higher education sector modern awards that academics often worked above and beyond a 38-hour week, with the extra hours l...

Editorial Team

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

Wages slowly edge up

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Latest ABS figures have revealed a second consecutive quarter of growth, though one apparently driven by Victorian public sector deals. While seasonally adjusted private sector wages rose 1.9%, public sector wages rose 2.4% through the year to December quarter 2017. Vic had the highest yearly increase at 2.4%, with Northern Territory the lowest wit...

Bench rules on appropriate test for considering medical capacity

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The Fair Work Commission is responsible for resolving any conflict in medical opinion on a worker's capacity to do the job - not the employer, a full bench has found. In any dismissal related to the person's capacity, s387 (a) of the Fair Work Act requires the cmn to consider and make findings as to whether, at the time of dismissal, the applicant ...

MFB backs away from controversial EA memorandum

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A dispute that threatened to derail voting on a new enterprise agreement covering Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) officers in Victoria has ended, with the MFB agreeing to amend a controversial explanatory memorandum in the agreement (WF 9/2/2018 ) . The United Firefighters Union (UFU) claimed the MFB and the Vic Government had misled firefighters b...

Boeing workers to vote on strikes

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Boeing Aerostructures Australia's workers at the Fisherman Bend plant will vote on protected action in a ballot closing on March 22. Boeing Aerostructures is the country's only designer and manufacturer of advanced composite aerostructure components for commercial aircraft. Neither the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union nor Boeing were willing...
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