The Federal Magistrates' Court has fined a service station operator $34,000 for unpaying its mainly young workforce between 2005 and 2008 in what the operator alleged was the result of a HR consultancy firm's inaccurate advice. The court heard husband and wife Heinz and Paula Wegener ran three businesses - a service station, a Subway outlet and a n...
Service station fined $34k fine for underpaying young workers
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CFMEU hit with $500K fine for strikes against ‘sham contracting'
The Federal Court has ordered the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) to pay more than half a million dollars to Lend Lease for unlawful industrial action taken as part of the unions' sham contracting campaign last year. In her decision on penalties handed down last Friday (Octob...
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FWA to promote model productivity clauses
Fair Work bodies have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on productivity, including by promoting model provisions in workplace agreements. Under the initiative announced last Friday (October 19), Fair Work Australia, Fair Work Building and Construction and the Fair Work Ombudsman will identify best practice productivity measures ...
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Employer allegedly used IFAs as carrot/stick inducement to quit TWU
Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's bid to keep individual flexibility agreements (IFA) with its workforce confidential. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) alleged employer Arkwood Organic Recycling in Brisbane used IFAs to induce members to quit the union. Commissioner Ingrid Asbury issued s483 orders (access to non-union member records)...
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Mary Jo-Fisher back in IR
Former Liberal Senator Mary-Jo Fisher has returned to her industrial relations roots with a job as senior workplace relations advisor for the Printing Industries Association. Fisher resigned from the Senate in August. Before she entered politics in 2007, she worked as a barrister specialising in IR. She also served as a senior advisor to Howard Gov...
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Child care centre fined for telling pregnant worker to quit
The Federal Court has ordered a child care centre operator to pay $18,200 to a pregnant employee for “recklessly” denying her unpaid parental leave entitlements and unilaterally cutting her hours of work. Orieta O'Leary, WKO Pty Ltd director and manager of Dinky Di Child Care Centre in WA, admitted reducing Joyce Nederpel's days of work...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com. Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Bench junks hospital EAs due to no written authority for bargaining rep
A Fair Work Australia full bench has recommended changes to the Fair Work Rules 2010 after it junked three enterprise agreements for Victorian nurses because the employer bargaining representative did not have written authorisation to sign off on the deals. In what the bench described as “bizarre” circumstances, Kaizen Hospitals appeale...
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Mary Jo-Fisher back in IR
Former Liberal Senator Mary-Jo Fisher has returned to her industrial relations roots with a job as senior workplace relations advisor for the Printing Industries Association. Fisher resigned from the Senate in August. Before she entered politics in 2007, she worked as a barrister specialising in IR. She also served as a senior advisor to Howard Gov...
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Bornstein says IR debate so bad it's enough to make cretins weep
Maurice Blackburn IR principal Josh Bornstein has delivered a scathing assessment of the standard of IR debate engaged in by some business commentators, employer groups and sections of the print media. Speaking at the Australian Industry Group's national personnel and IR conference in Canberra today, Bornstein said the standard of IR debate was ...
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Greens call for inquiry into state public sector job cuts
Greens deputy leader and MP Adam Bandt has joined with Queensland unions to call for a federal inquiry into conservative state governments' public sector job cuts. The inquiry's terms of reference will include whether recent state laws breach international labour standards and whether the Fair Work Act is “properly protecting” public se...
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QIRC halts hospital staff cuts, orders consultation with unions
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) has put a halt on plans to cut 110 jobs at the Sunshine Coast Hospital (SCH). QIRC Deputy President Adrian Bloomfield issued orders late yesterday restraining the hospital's board from implementing organisational changes until it had consulted with the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and other uni...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Bowen Basin EA voted up: Parties trade off pay for rosters/labour hire
The 23-month Bowen Basin coal mines industrial dispute has ended with 60% of workers voting up a new enterprise agreement delivering 5%-a-year pay increases over three years, and a $15,000 annual bonus payment. The yearly bonus is a major win for workers as the $15,000 amount had previously been tabled only as a one-off sign-on bonus, a union spoke...
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FWA limits fixed-term conversion
Fair Work Australia has restricted Macquarie University's fixed-term conversion clauses to only new contracts after rejecting the National Tertiary Education Union's (NTEU) interpretation they applied to all contracts, including those pre-existing the clauses. The NTEU has complained its interpretation was the basis for its concessions during heate...
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FM stops CFMEU from targeting Baulderstone as ‘reliability' at risk
A Federal Magistrate has granted broad interim orders preventing the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) from taking unlawful industrial action at any Baulderstone construction site after the court recognised the union's coordinated industrial campaign against the company threatened to damage its reputation. In a decision published to...
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Road Safety Tribunal orders to sit above modern awards and EAs
Fair Work Australia Deputy President Jennifer Acton has given her first major speech in her role as inaugural president of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT). Speaking at the Australian Industry Group National PIR Group Conference in Canberra on Monday (October 22), President Acton said RSRT remuneration orders would take precedence over ...
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MEAA claims Fairfax took adverse action by retrenching subeditors
The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) has commenced adverse action proceedings against Fairfax Media for retrenching four Launceston Examiner subeditors allegedly because they engaged in industrial activity and made complaints about their employment. The subeditors had been key players in a push for the company to improve redundancy entitlem...
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Editorial Team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Qantas IR, Noonan, Kearney, Willox, VP Watson confirmed for WFC 2012
Qantas IR plans for 2013 and beyond, Facebook-related dismissals, FWA Vice President Graeme Watson on building consensus around productivity, the FWO on the latest trends on workplace discrimination, and the ACTU's Ged Kearney and Ai Group's Innes Willox go head-to-head at this year's 11th annual Workforce Conference in Melbourne on November 16. Ot...
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