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Food delivery riders launch app-sacking test cases

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Two former Foodora riders are taking the food delivery company to the Fair Work Commission (FWC), claiming they were sacked for going on holiday and for refusing to leave a chat group. Their applications, which were filed on press day (March 14), reveal new Foodora workers are signing contracts for $7 per delivery, with no base wage. Previously the...

Tech billionaire says food delivery riders are 20th century ‘blacksmiths'

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Atlassian co-founder Michael Cannon-Brookes has told a Senate inquiry he believes driverless cars will replace food delivery workers within the next 15 years. “The drivers of today will be the blacksmiths of the 20 th century,” he told yesterday's hearing (March 13). “There will be massive job disruption, massive job losses, socia...

NSW Appeal Court tosses out ‘manifestly excessive' $84k PSA fine

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The NSW Court of Appeal has set aside a record $84,000 fine slapped on the Public Service Association (PSA), saying it was manifestly excessive. The Court reduced the fine to $25,000 for breaching NSW Industrial Relations Commission orders in February 2017 in a dispute over NSW Government moves to privatise disability support workers. NSW IR Commis...

‘Crisis in the academic profession' as uni casualisation grows

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Australia's universities are ill-equipped to train the next generation of students as the industry is underpinned by increasing casualisation, a senate inquiry has heard. National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) president Jeannie Rea told a hearing for the Future of Work and Workers inquiry yesterday (March 13) that only one third of university wor...

Editorial Team

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Editor : Rajiv Maharaj, rajiv.maharaj@tr.com . Chief Journalist: Emily Woods, emily.woods@tr.com . Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact: (02) 8587 7454. Twitter : @WorkforceTR

Bakers Delight to cough up dough in rare FW costs orders

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In a rare award of costs to intervenors in a pay dispute, the Federal Circuit Court has ordered a Bakers Delight franchisee to pay the legal fees of two 18-year-old workers who successfully took it to court over its failure to pay award rates. Ava Handsley and co-worker Savarna Nock have spent 18 months in legal action against Bakers Delight franch...

Gold Coast Council workers strike over strike ban

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Gold Coast Council workers were attending a mass rally on pressday (March 15) to protest removal of their right to strike during the Commonwealth Games. Today's rally follows a Queensland Industrial Relations Commission ruling on Monday (March 12) banning industrial action between March 19 and April 27 on “essential services” grounds. C...

Court hears Belan fraud charges

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Fraud charges against former National Union of Workers NSW secretary Derrick Belan were continuing to be heard at Parramatta Local Court as Workforce Daily went to press. Belan has pleaded not guilty to 62 charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception in his time as state secretary. On Monday, ABC News reported prosecution charges Belan rac...

‘Don't be rude, I just work here': SDA takes on abusive customers

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The Shop Distributive & Allied Employees Association (SDA) has led roundtable talks with major supermarkets on press day to tackle what the union says is a “customer abuse epidemic”. The National Customer Abuse & Violence Industry Roundtable included Coles, Woolworths, McDonalds, NGOs, industry peak bodies such as the National R...

Academic freedom doesn't include slamming top brass in group email

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Academic freedom does not include ‘broadcasting' claims of bullying and harassment to all and sundry on campus, the Queensland Supreme Court has held. The Court refused to award supposed breach of contract damages to a Qld University of Technology (QUT) lecturer sacked after repeatedly ignoring warnings not to publicly air allegations he was ...

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 7454. Twitter : @WorkforceTR

Labor foreshadows FWC arbitration power for Glencore-style lockouts

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Labor shadow IR minister Brendan O'Connor has foreshadowed more incisive arbitration powers for the Fair Work Commission to intervene and end long-running disputes like Glencore's 220-day-plus lockout at its North Oaky coal mine. “I think that's a problem - lockouts that go for that long; and it's disproportionate- there's a strike for a week...

Microsoft study shines light on benefits of 'digital transformation'

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WFD: Australia's "digital transformation" will pump an estimated $45 billion into the country's gross domestic product by 2021, creating higher-quality jobs and increasing businesses' growth by 0.5% annually, research by Microsoft reveals. The Unlocking the Economic Impact of Digital Transformation in Asia Pacific study said Australia was "on the d...

'Crisis in the academic profession' as uni casualisation grows

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WFD: Australia's universities are ill-equipped to train the next generation of students as the industry is underpinned by increasing casualisation, a senate inquiry has heard. National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) president Jeannie Rea told a hearing for the Future of Work and Workers inquiry on March 13 that only one third of university workers...

NSW Appeal Court tosses out 'manifestly excessive' $84k PSA fine

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WFD: The NSW Court of Appeal has set aside a record $84,000 fine slapped on the Public Service Association (PSA), saying it was manifestly excessive. The Court reduced the fine to $25,000 for breaching NSW Industrial Relations Commission orders in February 2017 in a dispute over NSW Government moves to privatise disability support workers. NSW IR C...

FWC removes 'overpaid' workers from council EA to lower NFP deal

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WFD: A seemingly innocuous Fair Work Commission transfer of business decision could make it easier for councils to outsource workers to third party not-for-profit (NFP) service providers particularly in the aged care and community services sector. The decision, which a national law firm has highlighted to its local government clients (see below) , ...

'Don't be rude, I just work here': SDA takes on abusive customers

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WFD: The Shop Distributive & Allied Employees Association (SDA) has led roundtable talks with major supermarkets on Thursday (March 15) to tackle what the union says is a "customer abuse epidemic". The National Customer Abuse & Violence Industry Roundtable included Coles, Woolworths, McDonalds, NGOs, industry peak bodies such as the Nationa...

Bus drivers 'not forced to work on public holidays': FCC

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WFD: The Federal Circuit Court has tossed out a 2016 application claiming Ventura Transit Pty Ltd breached s114 of the National Employment Standards by denying a bus driver the right not to work on a public holiday. Gregory Paul Clark argued an agreement with the previous owner of the business Grenda ensured only bus drivers who wanted to work on p...

Diary

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March 19: Interlocutory hearing in Federal Court for the AWU v ROC case over the union raids. March 21: ACTU secretary Sally McManus addresses the National Press Club . March 21: Leo Cussen Centre for Law Annual Employment Law Conference , Melbourne - details here . March 26-28: Trial dates for the (above) AWU v ROC case . May 1: Australian Industr...

AMMA and MBA lose bid to stay super union merger

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On press day, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has knocked back a last-ditch employer bid to stay the creation of the so-called super union ( WF 6/03/18 ) . Vice President Adam Hatcher ruled the merger of the Maritime Union of Australia, Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union and the Textile Clothing & Footwear Union can go ahead as planned on...
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