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Vic jurisdictional challenge to upping firefighter levels

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The Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA) has failed in a push for the Federal Full Court to determine whether it is a constitutional corporation and so bound by enterprise agreement clauses to increase minimum manning levels. The CFA has sought to challenge Fair Work Australia (FWA) Commissioner Julius Roe's August 21 decision that the state auth...

Defence response to network breach ‘opportunistic' and ‘extreme'

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WFD: 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 Austr...

ALAEA bets on arbitration for 15%

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WFD: 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 Australi...

HSU seeks to avoid statute of limitations in Thomson case

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WFD: 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 the national executive last week approved funds for lawyers to consider &...

FWA name change sets up potential conflict

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WFD: 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 on October 16, Presid...

New discrimination claims allowed in adverse action application

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WFD: The Federal Magistrates' Court has affirmed the broad scope general protections applicants have to add to their claims by allowing a dismissed employee to include several new workplace rights her employer's adverse action allegedly breached even though she did not raise the issue in mandatory conciliation. The scope for applicants to change th...

Penalty rates hearings in November

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Fair Work Australia will hear evidence in relation to its modern award review of penalty rates and public holidays in the hospitality and retail industries “by mid or late November at the latest”, Commissioner Peter Hampton told a directions hearing yesterday (October 18). “We anticipate the hearings will be conducted jointly in t...

PC report backs FWA super panel

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WFD: 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-ti...

UV to ‘closely monitor' new Schweppes roster

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WFD: United Voice (Victoria) secretary Jess Walsh has voiced her disappointment with Fair Work Australia's (FWA) decision to allow Schweppes Australia to trial six-day, 12-hours shifts at its Tullamarine plant. Walsh claims workers will be forced to give up weekends without adequate compensation (WF18405) . United Voice had argued Tullamarine's thr...

Mental health nurses' finalise EA

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WFD: Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says work will now begin on allocating 43 new mental health nursing positions across public health services in Victoria, after parties yesterday (October 17) finalised the new Vic public sector mental health nurses' enterprise agreement. ANF expects all public sector mental health nurses will vote for the ag...

Termination claims increase

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WFD: Unfair dismissal claims increased by about 10% from 2011 to 2012 and general protections applications continue to rise, according to Fair Work Australia's (FWA) latest figures. The 2011-12 FWA annual report released this week revealed 14,027 dismissal claims were lodged in the past financial year, an increase of 9.2% from the previous year. Ab...

Hungry Jack's back off non-SDA EA

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WFD: A group of Hungry Jack's operators in NSW, Queensland and Victoria have withdrawn their application for a non-union enterprise agreement (EA), following Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) objections. In June, a group of franchise owners headed by Hungry Jack's St Marys Pty Ltd applied to Fair Work Australia for an EA to be kno...

Ross in Estimates: name ‘important'

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WFD: Appearing before Senates Estimates on 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 the tribunal's named to be changed. “Despite the fact these investigations have nothing to...

Govt releases initial IR reforms

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WFD: 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...

Diary

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Health & Wellbeing at Work Conference: October 31, University of Sydney Law School Building, Sydney. Hosted by the Workplace Research Centre. See website . The Diversity Council of Australia's annual diversity debate: ‘Racism is holding Australia back': Nov 13, Sydney. Details, here . 11 th Workforce Conference: November 16, Melbourne. Co...

Editorial Team

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Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Journalists: Steve Andrew, Rajiv Maharaj. Managing Editor: Helen Jones. Product Code: 314021718435.

Tighe claims win against Mighell

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The Electrical Trades Union national office has welcomed Victorian branch secretary Dean Mighell's court undertaking to destroy any national mailing list of ETU members he has access to. Last month, ETU national was outraged the Vic branch sent an unsolicited newsletter to members across the country attacking the national branch ( WF18405 ) . At th...

‘Unlawful industrial action' order under BCII Act no longer has basis

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In a significant decision potentially affecting transitional BCIIActproceedings, the Federal Court has set aside an interlocutory order barring unions organising industrial action and blockading Abigroup's Cairns Base Hospital project. Federal Magistrate Michael Burnett issued the order as part of a three-pronged interlocutory relief decision on Ju...

Bench cautions against ‘unfairly chosen' assumption

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A Fair Work Australia full bench has cautioned against unions assuming there are ‘fairly chosen' grounds to challenge agreements if coverage does not extend to all employees. The bench - Vice President Graeme Watson, Deputy President Reg Hamilton and Commissioner Chris Simpson - made the remarks in a Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union ...

FWA does not cover Vic police

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Fair Work Australia has put “beyond doubt” earlier findings Vic police officers are not covered by the federal body under referral-of-powers legislation. Quashing a Victorian police officer's attempts to have her unfair dismissal case heard by the federal tribunal, Commissioner Julius Roe said “whether Ms [Kylie] Anderson was a pr...
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