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MUA's 7-day Patrick strike on hold

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WFD: The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has put on hold a planned seven-day strike at Patrick Stevedore's Port Botany terminal. The strike by contracted workers against Patrick crane maintenance contractor Kalmar was to have started on Wednesday (April 18). Interim order remains in force Patrick confirmed to Workforce the union withdrew the stri...

Patrick calls on FWC to halt sympathy strike at Port Botany

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WFD: Patrick Stevedores urgently sought s418 stop orders against the maritime union on April 17, arguing union members were taking unlawful industrial action at Port Botany in support of contracted maintenance workers who were to start a week-long strike on April 18 ( since cancelled by the union: see story above, MUA's 7-day Patrick strike on hold...

Calls for Vic Govt to intervene as Esso dispute enters 300th day

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WFD: A rally against one of Australia's longest running pay disputes has been used to kick off a month of union protests across the country. April 17 marked 300 days since 230 Esso/UGL Longford workers began a picket line outside the Victorian gas plant ( WF 23/06/17 ) , claiming the oil and gas giant had switched maintenance contracts to reduce wo...

Mud sticks: DP Sams tosses out bullying case v Sydney Trains

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WFD: 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 clai...

Employers big winners in Greenfields Agreement review

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WFD: Resource sector employers have scored big in a Federal Government review of greenfields agreements, with the final report recommending compulsory Fair Work Commission arbitration if deals can't be struck within three months. The review also rejected union calls to ban so-called 'brownfields' agreements (see below) . Under Fair Work Act changes...

Employers want to remove EA conditions, but struggling to bargain

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WFD: A Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) survey reveals 93% of its employer clients are seeking to "remove unproductive or inflexible" enterprise agreement (EA) terms and conditions in their next bargaining round, and 60% want to freeze wages or only pay "nominal" increases. The survey of "key clients" showed many had a desire to unwind "unsustainable"...

'Dog eat dog' transport industry forcing drivers to cut safety corners

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WFD: "Ridiculous and unmeetable deadlines" are forcing truck drivers to break fatigue laws, a Transport Workers Union (TWU) survey has revealed. The anonymous poll of more than 1,000 Australian truck drivers showed 93% believed the industry needed to change, while 87% said police operations would not make the roads safer. Drivers squeezed More than...

Cmn stays driver's pay while licence suspended

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has stayed a decision that saw BHP Coal directed to keep paying a Bowen Basin mine vehicle operator despite him being unable to drive because his driver's licence was suspended. Ordering a stay until an appeal was heard, Deputy President Alan Colman found BHP had a “reasonable case” for overturning the orig...

Woolies trolley collector subbie slugged $230k for rorting refugees

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WFD: 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 $2...

FWC slaps s418 orders on unions for vague 10-minute stoppage notice

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has issued stop industrial action orders against United Voice and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) for not adequately specifying the types of industrial action the unions intended against a national ambulance service contractor. The unions sent identical Fair Work Act s414 notices to National Pati...

Employers object to RAFFWU role in 4-yearly-review

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WFD: The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) says Retail and Fast Food Workers Union Incorporated (RAFFWU) cannot be involved in the Fast Food Industry Award's four-yearly-review as a “party participial”, as it is not a registered organisation (RO). RAFFWU is contesting Ai Group's proposed changes to the part-time provision of the awar...

Dairy company workers to vote on strike action in support of EA claims

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WFD: Workers at Parmalat's Clarence Gardens milk production facility will be hoping the company's 61-day lockout of workers in Echuca, Victoria last year isn't repeated in the company's latest enterprise agreement (EA) dispute ( WF 23/03/17 ). Production workers represented by United Voice (UV) and maintenance workers represented by the Communicati...

FWC halts university's attempt to increase workload

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WFD: The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has won an interim order preventing the University of New England (UNE) from upping its teaching workloads, ahead of a Fair Work Commission (FWC) hearing into the matter. The union said the UNE's new dean of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education (HASSE) had on February 20 "unilaterally imp...

EA's sick leave falls short of NES

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WFD: South Australian paper mill workers may receive more sick leave after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruled their agreement's provision did not comply with their entitlements under the National Employment Standards (NES). The decision confirms the 2015 FWC RACV full bench ruling (see below) , which held that enterprise agreements (EA) with leav...

ABCC wins injunctions against CFMMEU on $900m Qld road project

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The Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) has today secured Federal Court injunctions stopping the construction union and its officials using state WHS laws to disrupt the $900m Bruce Highway upgrade in Queensland. Justice Berna Collier handed down the injunctions against the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU) ...

Tribunal finds sacking over tweets close to Orwellian ‘thoughtcrime'

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An immigration department employee sacked after the department identified her as an anonymous tweeter highly critical of asylum seeker policy, the Government and the dept's communications manager, has won the right to workers' compensation for a psychological injury that resulted from its decision to dismiss her. The department had found Michaela B...

NTEU dirty at James Cook Uni plan to cut 32 jobs when execs on $800k

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Tensions have flared up at James Cook University (JCU) after the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) this week learned of plans to cut 32 jobs. The NTEU said staff were told on Wednesday that 17 positions in Townsville would be made redundant, 14 in Cairns, with possibly one more job to go in one of the two cities. The union has cried foul, sa...

Govt lauds jobs increase; Oppn slams full-time work decline

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While the Federal Government has heralded an increase in almost 5,000 jobs in the past month as proof its policies “continue to pay dividends”, Labor says the statistics tell a different story. Jobs minister Senator Michaelia Cash said the March labour force figures , released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday (April 19...

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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

Unions slam NSW IRC move as ruse to free up CBD site for developers

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Unions have blasted the NSW Government's stated reasons for relocating the state Industrial Relations Commission from heritage-listed premises in Sydney's CBD to Parramatta, 30 km away, as “lies and spin”. They say the move is a “significant impediment to accessing justice”. NSW IR Minister Dominic Perrottet confirmed the mo...
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