WFD: Direct Couriers has slammed underpayment allegations by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) as “false and misleading”, after the union staged a protest at the company's Banksmeadow NSW headquarters on April 11. The TWU claimed Direct Couriers were only paying its drivers $38 a week in superannuation, and the company had slashed wages...
Employer labels union courier wage claims ‘entirely false'
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Employers have one last go at blocking super union
WFD: Australian Mines and Metals Association and Master Builders Australia have taken up the cudgels again to try and persuade the Fair Work Commission to smash the amalgamation of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU). However, while the Fair Work Commission full bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Senior Deputy Presiden...
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‘Surprise' 7-Eleven FWO visits end in $192,000 penalties
WFD: A Brisbane 7-Eleven franchise operator and his companies have been penalised almost $200,000 in the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) for underpaying 21 workers across two stores. The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) discovered the underpayments in 2014 during “surprise night-time visits” as part of the regulator's investigation into the compan...
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Union loses bid for summary dismissal of organiser's complaint
WFD: The Transport Workers Union (TWU) WA branch has lost its bid to have the Federal Circuit Court summarily dismiss an ex-industrial officer/ organiser's claim it unlawfully sacked her while she was temporarily absent from work due to illness. Judith Anne McCulloch started working for the TWU on May 19, 2014. On hiring her, the TWU noted “J...
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More than 1 in 3 uni workers have insecure jobs
WFD: The university sector workforce is dominated by casual employees (both professional and clerical & administrative), accounting for four out of every ten employees at universities in 2016-17, a new report from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says. Analysing Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) data, provided to it by the uni...
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Picketing workers hit with injunction after stopping Yakult deliveries
WFD: The National Union of Workers (NUW) has been handed a Supreme Court of Victoria injunction after picketing union members stopped Yakult Australia from delivering its product to customers, costing the company more than $280,000. However, just three days after the injunction was ordered, the dispute between Yakult and its workers came to an end ...
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Deliveroo partners with 'GigSuper' for self-employed
WFD: Two former online stockbrokers are launching a superannuation fund targeting Australia's 1.7 million self-employed, including the country's burgeoning gig economy workforce. Deliveroo, one of the online food delivery companies under fire ( WF 31/01/2018 ) for not paying their contractors superannuation, has emerged as GigSuper's first major pa...
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Wages growth ‘gradual' as employment picks up: RBA
WFD: The labour market is showing signs of improvement and has led “to a pick-up in wages growth” in the most recent quarter, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe says. He added: “a further lift is expected, but it is likely to only be gradual.” Lowe made the comments during a speech at the Australia-Israel C...
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Diary
May 1: Australian Industry Group seminar Employment Law for HR Professionals - details here . May 14: Ex-union boss Kathy Jackson's next directions hearing . May 22: Australian Industry Group seminar Modern Awards - details here . June 8: Mention for the AWU v ROC case , trial likely for August. June 11-15: Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Ene...
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Editorial Team
Editor : Rajiv Maharaj, rajiv.maharaj@tr.com . Contact: (02) 8587 7454. Chief Journalist: Emily Woods, emily.woods@tr.com . Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Laundy sends up ACTU sector strike call #break-the-economy
Workplace relations minister Craig Laundy has lampooned the peak union body's call to allow workers to strike in support of industry-wide bargaining as “#break-the-economy”. However, Laundy's hash-tagging send-up of the Australian Council of Trade Union's #changetherules riff came with an ominous warning: he believes implementing the AC...
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NSW jail strike contagion fears
Long Bay jail warders will decide tomorrow morning (April 14) whether to obey a second return-to-work order, after walking out over a staffing dispute. This morning's (April 13) walk out is threatening to go state-wide, with prisoners locked in their cells. The prison officers are opposing a NSW Government benchmarking process they claim will slash...
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‘Not happy, James': Caltex CEO slams FWO over relationship
Caltex chief executive Julian Segal has launched a blistering attack on Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) Natalie James over her office's handling of a wages underpayment investigation across the fuel supplier's franchise network. In a speech at a business luncheon in Sydney on Thursday (April 12), Segal slammed the workplace regulator for an “uncons...
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FWC reinstates CFMMEU SA top brass Dave Kirner's RoE permit
The Fair Work Commission has re-issued barred Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU) South Australian division secretary David Kirner with a right-of-entry (RoE) permit. The cmn, acting on its own initiative as per s510 of the Fair Work Act, slapped Kirner with a three-month suspension last October. That decision flowed from pr...
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Employer slugged $300k for ‘pattern of nonpayment'
The Federal Circuit Court (FCC) has called out an employer's “flagrant disregard” for the rights of its first aid responders, fining it $300,000 for underpaying workers just $13,715. The penalties are the second highest in a Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) case involving Victorian workers, the regulator said. The FWO caught Acute Health Pty L...
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‘Vindictive' Westpac worker discredited colleague
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has thrown out an unfair dismissal claim, saying a sacked Westpac worker “persisted in her character assassination” of a colleague by breaching a confidentiality clause and communicating “misleading and incorrect facts” to prevent the co-worker from being appointed to a new role. Westpac sacked...
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Recruiters' googling is no reason to hide bullying complainant's identity
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has knocked back a bullying claimant's bid for anonymity, even though the man believed identifying him would force him to drop his complaint as he feared not being able to get employment elsewhere. Commissioner Tony Saunders did “not accept [Miroslav] Blagojevic's contention that he would never again be able to f...
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DP Gooley retires
Fair Work Commission Deputy President Anne Gooley has retired, the cmn confirmed on press day. Gooley recently turned 65. She was appointed to the cmn in 2010 (then Fair Work Australia). In 2012, then workplace relations minister Bill Shorten appointed her a deputy president. Gooley started her industrial relations career with the Media Entertainme...
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Mud sticks: DP Sams tosses out bullying case v Sydney Trains
The Fair Work Commission has struck out a stop bullying application saying a lengthy delay in hearing the case while the worker ran a Federal Court matter could tarnish the reputations of the accused bullies, as well as impact on their future employment prospects. In a decision looking at the impact of those on the receiving end of s789FC claims, D...
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Woolies trolley collector subbie slugged $230k for rorting refugees
The Federal Circuit Court has hammered a Woolworths trolley collection subcontractor company and its director more than $230,000 for rorting the wages of two refugees. In a case brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), the court heard Joban's Trolley Collection Pty and it director Jobanjeet Singh underpaid two trolley collectors a total of $29,031...
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