Domino's Pizza has announced it is abandoning its Enterprise Agreement (EA) and workers will instead be paid according to the Fast Food Industry Award. In a shock decision on press day (March 26), only weeks before the pay deal was due to come before the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for approval, Domino's chief executive Nick Knight said the company ...
EA ditched as Domino's workers reverted to award wages
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Security, cleaners, community services gain portable LSL
The Victorian Government has introduced legislation to give portable long service leave (LSL) to community services, security and contract cleaning workers. Vic IR minister Natalie Hutchins said the Long Service Leave Bill 2017 will see workers entitled to LSL after being employed for seven years in their industry, “irrespective of the number...
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Fed Court rejects ABCC ‘cup of tea' case as ‘tempest in a teapot'
The Federal Court has tossed out an Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) case against two union officials alleged to have breached right of entry laws by having a cup of tea with a worker. Justice Anthony North said the so-called ‘cup of tea' case was no more than a storm in a tea cup. “The law has always had a fondness fo...
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CPSU slams Telstra job cuts as backroom jobs move offshore
Telstra has confirmed to Workforce Daily it will slash 133 jobs as it moves billing and other backend admin offshore. The telco said its Telstra Wholesale division had started talks with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) to discuss its offshoring plans. Telstra said affected workers could be redeployed to 38 newly-created positions, whic...
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Sydney train drivers vote up EAs
Sydney and NSW train drivers have voted up the latest enterprise agreement (EA) offers and the deals are off to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for approval, which should bring to an end the industrial unrest and threatened strikes. Some 6,525 out of 9,707 Sydney Trains employees took part in the EA ballot, and almost 52.8% voted yes; and at NSW Tra...
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Court finds Belan guilty
The National Union of Workers NSW branch has welcomed the Parramatta Local Court's finding ex-secretary Derrick Belan was guilty of defrauding the union of some $650,000. Belan had denied some 62 charges of fraud having earlier told the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) his niece and former union bookkeeper Danielle O'Brien was responsible for ma...
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Govt extends domestic violence leave
The Federal Government has announced “a further six million workers” who are not covered by a modern award will gain access to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave (DVL), shortly after a Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruling applying it to those on awards (below) . In a joint-statement last night (March 26) workplace relat...
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FWC rejects union's argument for paid domestic violence leave
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled all workers on a modern award will receive five days unpaid family and domestic violence leave (DVL), throwing out an union attempt to claim 10 days of paid leave. The bench - President Justice Iain Ross, Deputy President Anne Gooley and Commissioner Paula Spencer - followed on from its rejection last year o...
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Thousands of childcare workers walk out in ‘frustration' over pay
More than 6,000 childcare workers walked out to protest their low pay on press day (March 27). Early childhood educators participated in a national walk off to express their “anger and frustration” at the Federal Government for not discussing professional pay for childcare workers, United Voice (UV) said. The protest came in the wake of...
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Flexible work arrangements rejected
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has agreed with employer arguments that granting workers “family friendly working hours” would “fundamentally alter the paradigm under which an employer operates a business”. However, it will look to include in awards a model term to facilitate the making of flexible work arrangements ( see bel...
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AMWU to junk divisions in radical overhaul to revive membership
The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) will radically overhaul its governance structure by getting rid of its four divisions, the union has confirmed to Workforce Daily . The changes were greenlit at a special national conference last week, and will take effect from July 1 next year. The manufacturing, printing, food and vehicle manufac...
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Outlook worsens in weather dispute, as bosses again reject conciliation
Weather workers could now take rolling strikes “at any time” as their dispute with Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) management “enters a new phase”, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says. The industrial dispute is now in its fourth year, after the previous enterprise agreement expired in June 2014. Since July last yea...
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Social media campaign targets unpaid internships
“Social media shaming” can help educate employers on their legal responsibilities when advertising for unpaid work experience, the Young Workers Centre (YWC) says. Using Facebook, the YWC has been systematically naming and shaming employers advertising unlawful internships on job sites. In the past two weeks the centre has targeted a th...
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Workforce Easter publication dates
The Workforce weekly edition will be published tomorrow (March 29) as there will be no editions of Workforce or Workforce Daily on Good Friday, March 30, or next week. Publication resumes on Monday, April 9. The Workforce team wishes readers a happy and safe Easter break.
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Federal Court orders Howard's postie to pay costs
In a further blow for an Australian Post employee sacked for charging his co-workers fees to act as their workplace representative, the Federal Court has ordered he pay his employer's costs in his latest case. In February this year, Justice Geoffrey Flick rejected postie Quentin Cook's latest bid for reinstatement ( WF 19/02/18) . Aust Post had sac...
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Peace breaks out in coal heartland with BMA and Oaky North deals
After more than two years of bitter disputation, the war between two major coal companies and their workers over pay and conditions in Australia's coal heartland is set to end with deals struck for two, new enterprise agreements (EAs). In a vote yesterday (March 27), 75% of workers at Glencore's Oaky North mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin endorsed ...
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CPSU slams Telstra job cuts as backroom jobs move offshore
WFD: Telstra has confirmed to Workforce Daily it will slash 133 jobs as it moves billing and other backend admin offshore. The telco said its Telstra Wholesale division had started talks with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) to discuss its offshoring plans. Telstra said affected workers could be redeployed to 38 newly-created positions,...
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Sydney train drivers vote up EAs
WFD: Sydney and NSW train drivers have voted up the latest enterprise agreement (EA) offers and the deals are off to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for approval, which should bring to an end the industrial unrest and threatened strikes. Some 6,525 out of 9,707 Sydney Trains employees took part in the EA ballot, and almost 52.8% voted yes; and at NS...
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Court finds Belan guilty
WFD: The National Union of Workers NSW branch has welcomed the Parramatta Local Court's finding ex-secretary Derrick Belan was guilty of defrauding the union of some $650,000. Belan had denied some 62 charges of fraud having earlier told the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) his niece and former union bookkeeper Danielle O'Brien was responsible f...
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