Health fund HBF has defended itself against Finance Sector Union (FSU) claims its 1.4%-a-year pay rise offer to staff is “insulting”. Urging workers to reject the offer, FSU Western Australia secretary Dianne Marshall said HBF had given “no thought” to the welfare of its 700 employees in offering a “paltry” 4.25%...
FSU calls on HBF workers to reject ‘insulting' pay offer
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Employer uses worker as ‘scapegoat' for ripping off suppliers
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ridiculed an employer who made a worker the scapegoat “for issues with supplier invoices” and “irregularities with insurance documentation”, requiring it to pay the woman $13,000 compensation. Queensland truck and bus repair company The River Group (TRG) sacked administration manager Stepha...
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Meanwhile, SCLJ canvasses dispute resolution tribunal feasibility
The NSW Legislative Council's Standing Committee on Law and Justice (SCLJ) says it has started working on its latest review of the state's workers' compensation scheme. SCLJ is expected to recommend to the NSW Government a “preferred” model for a consolidated personal injury tribunal for compulsory third-party (CTP) and w/comp dispute r...
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Fairness trumps lawfulness in Fair Work Act stand down provisions
In a significant decision on the Fair Work Act's stand down provisions, the industrial tribunal has confirmed the s526 (4) requirement to “take into account fairness between the parties” can trump the lawfulness of an employer standing down a worker. Fair Work Commission Deputy President Peter Anderson said s526's dispute arbitration pr...
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Big spending Seven cutting conditions to ‘reduce costs': union
Channel Seven is seeking “major reductions in working conditions” including cuts to redundancy provisions and penalty rates and changes to shift rosters, the Community and Public Service Union (CPSU) says. Last week the CPSU met Seven management and proposed a 3% a year pay rise and “no reduction” to workplace conditions in ...
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Editor : Rajiv Maharaj, rajiv.maharaj@tr.com . Contact: (02) 8587 7454. Chief Journalist: Emily Woods, emily.woods@tr.com . Managing Editor : Helen Jones. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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ABCC takes employer to Fed Ct for coercing worker to pay union dues
The Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) has commenced Federal Court proceedings against a Victorian painting contractor for allegedly coercing a worker to pay union fees. The building industry watchdog has alleged Prolac Pty Ltd and its director, Tim Petrusic, sacked the worker because he hadn't fully paid the Construction Forestry M...
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Increasing workplace diversity begins with recruiters: study
Recruiters are not putting forward diverse enough candidates for jobs due to perceived risk that they would not “fit a certain job profile”, research reveals. Workplace consultants Diversity First's research showed Australian recruitment firms were bypassing candidates leading to “superficial, atypical” applicants filling mo...
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Judge sympathetic, but ex-Ch 7 staffer Harrison guilty of contempt
In the case that refuses to go away, former Channel 7 executive assistant Amber Harrison has been found guilty of contempt for breaching gag orders over her consensual affair with Seven boss Tim Worner ( WF 3/03/2018 ). However, no punishment or legal costs were imposed on Harrison at the request of Seven. This morning's ruling by NSW Supreme Court...
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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 Editors : Peter Schwab/Helen Jones. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Patrick seeks s418 orders as wharfies walk out to join union rally
Patrick Stevedores was seeking urgent s418 stop industrial action orders at the Fair Work Commission at press time after hundreds of wharfies walked off the job to join a massive union rally in Melbourne. FWC confirmed Senior Deputy President Jonathan Hamberger was presiding over the hearing which started at 3pm. Tens of thousands of union supporte...
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Budget: tax cuts, wage growth, cuts to public service jobs
Employers have cautiously praised last night's federal Budget as a “cause for optimism”, while unions say the government is using income tax cuts as a distraction from public sector job cuts. The budget papers revealed the govt is projecting wages growth will increase from 1.9% this past year to 3.25% by the 2019-20 financial year, incr...
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Employers cautiously welcome budget
Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) has welcomed the budget as a “cause for optimism” within business and industry, but says investment in skills is lacking. Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox said the Federal Government's tax relief strategy would “drive further growth in activity, real incomes and job creation”. “...
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FWC throws out Ai Group challenge to ‘overgenerous' leave provisions
A peak employer body and the Federal Government have failed in a test case challenge to the way shift workers' personal and carer's leave is calculated. Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) argued 12-hour shift workers should only receive 76 hours of personal/carer's leave under s96 of the Fair Work Act - not 120 hours. The case related to an appli...
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Burger Buzz owner to pay $300K fine for ‘extraordinary' exploitation
A Melbourne burger bar owner, who avoided paying back workers' lost wages for more than two years, has been penalised $300,000 in the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) for showing “a blatant disregard” for its workplace obligations. The employer could face jail time if he breaks workplace law again, as the court handed him an injunction ̶...
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No second medical opinion fatal for prison officer in first post- CSL case
A prison officer Serco sacked due to medical incapacity made a fatal error in not providing the employer a second medical opinion prior to dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. The inherent requirements case sheds further light on the industrial tribunal's updated approach to Fair Work Act s387 (a) unfair dismissal claims in the wake of th...
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Union-dominated construction industry EAs top AAWI list
The union-dominated construction industry has delivered workers a 4.7% pay increase, topping average annualised wage increases (AAWI) for enterprise agreements (EAs) approved in the December quarter 2017 The 4.7% increase contrasted with just 2.6% for private sector EAs - though that was an increase on the 25-year low of 2.4% in the September quart...
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Editor : Rajiv Maharaj. Chief Journalist: Emily Woods. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Contact (02) 8587 7681 or rajiv.maharaj@tr.com . Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Lyons to examine NT WHS laws
Last Saturday (May 5) NT Attorney-General Natasha Fyles announced the territory government has commissioned Per Capita research fellow and ex-ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons ( WF 16/12/16 , WF 29/05/15 ) to conduct a six-month review into its work health & safety (WHS) laws. The review's scope includes considering specific issues such as whe...
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Employer sent to prison for contempt over underpayments
A North Queensland tour operator has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for failing to back-pay five backpackers, in “unprecedented” contempt of court action brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). It is the first time a jail term has been imposed as a result of FWO action, the agency said. On May 10 the Federal Circuit Court (FCC)...
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