The Transport Workers Union (TWU) is calling for a “three strikes and you're out” contract clause for employers working on government-funded projects. “The govt must have the power to terminate contracts when, for example, wage theft or safety standards are breached during public projects,” TWU national secretary Tony Sheldo...
‘Three strikes' for companies on publicly-funded projects: Sheldon
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Wind up poorly resourced FWO and give unions resources: TWU
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has slammed the Fair Work Ombudsman's (FWO) limited resources, saying the regulator told TWU “it can't recover” about $100,000 in stolen wages for three truck drivers, “since it doesn't have the resources to take a case to court”. “It takes just 50 cases a year,” national secreta...
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Australia's first online union launches for hospitality workers
“Netflix-style” $10-a-month memberships, digital tools for tracking wages and making workplace complaints, and a launch party at a popular Melbourne live music venue. Last night's launch of new hospitality union “Hospo Voice” offers an insight into how unions are striving to stay relevant in 2018. Labelling itself “Aus...
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Charity fundraising class action given green light by Fed Court
A class action involving more than 1,000 charity sales workers will proceed after the Federal Court ruled against Appco Group Australia's arguments that each claim should be heard in a separate trial. Lead applicant Jacob Bywater alleged Appco did not pay him ordinary rates of pay, overtime, termination payments, superannuation, allowances and expe...
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United Petroleum roadhouse fined $118k for withholding PPL payment
In a strong message to employers not to mess around with the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 , the Federal Court has slugged a United Petroleum (UP) franchisee and its director just shy of $120,000 for not passing on Centrelink paid parental leave (PPL) payments to a “vulnerable” visa worker. The case involved UP service station/roadhouse ...
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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 . Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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United Petroleum roadhouse fined $118k for withholding PPL payment
In a strong message to employers not to mess around with the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 , the Federal Court has slugged a United Petroleum (UP) franchisee and its director just shy of $120,000 for not passing on Centrelink paid parental leave (PPL) payments to a “vulnerable” visa worker. The case involved UP service station/roadhouse ...
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Australia's first online union launches
“Netflix-style” $10-a-month memberships, digital tools for tracking wages and making workplace complaints, and a launch party at a popular Melbourne live music venue. Last night's launch of new hospitality union “Hospo Voice” offers an insight into how unions are striving to stay relevant in 2018. Labelling itself “Aus...
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Police drop probe against Melhem as ROC goes for civil penalties
The Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) is taking Victorian Labor MP and former Australian Workers Union (AWU) state secretary Cesar Melhem to court for alleged contraventions of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009. The Federal Court proceedings include the AWU Vic branch. The ROC action comes barely a week after Vic Police drop...
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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 . Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Calls to revise national procurement rules in favour of local workers
Unions want the Federal Government to re-write its procurement rules to “explicitly encourage local suppliers, manufacturers and service providers” to create more jobs in Australia. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) released its jobs policy on press day (May 23), calling for the govt to “create good, secure jobs rather...
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Coles signs ‘safety and fairness' deal with TWU for its supply chain
“We just won't work with people who do the wrong thing,” Coles chief executive John Durkan declared moments after signing two historic supply chain memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) on press day. The union said the MOUs were 18-months in the making and contained principles to ensure “safe ...
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TWU cries too poor to pay $271k fine, but rolls over lump sum cash
The Federal Court has given short shrift to a Transport Workers' Union (TWU) claim it can't immediately pay a $271,000 fine because it only has $66,288 in its national office bank account. TWU's national office cried poor in a bid to delay paying a fine imposed in February by Justice Nye Perram against the NSW and WA TWU branches for doctoring memb...
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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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Labour hire firm suspended over alleged underpayments to workers
The Federal Government has suspended labour hire company Agri Labour Australia from recruitment under the seasonal worker program, pending investigations into allegations the company underpaid labourers from Vanuatu working on a Victorian farm. In a statement, workplace minister Craig Laundy saidlate last year MCG Fresh Produce engaged Agri Labour ...
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Coopers Brewery workers win pay rises, beer allowance in new EA
United Voice (UV) has proclaimed “cheers to winning” after South Australian beer maker Coopers guaranteed 3% pay rises every year for the next four years, and maintained all other conditions in its latest enterprise agreement (EA). UV delegate Tony Morgan said negotiations with the brewery went “much smoother” this time arou...
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Fairfax Media's ‘aggressive agenda' to slash conditions and pay: union
Journalists at Fairfax Media's metropolitan newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are facing “an aggressive agenda of cuts to current conditions and no guaranteed pay rises”, emails obtained by Workforce Daily reveal. Fairfax Metro management emailed staff this week with a “proposal” to build “successful, en...
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VP Hatcher knocks back Laundy's MFB deal full bench referral bid
The Fair Work Commission has knocked back workplace relations minister Craig Laundy's request to have a full bench take a closer look at a controversial enterprise agreement (EA) approval application by the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board (MFB). The MFB deal struck with the militant United Firefighters Union (UFU) boss Peter Marshall...
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TWU confirms $271k fine appeal
The Transport Workers' Union has confirmed it will appeal a Federal Court decision fining it more than $271,000 for doctoring membership books by including non-financial members ( WF 2/02/18 ) . As reported in yesterday's Workforce Daily , the union lost a bid to have payment of the fine stayed pending an appeal ( WF 23/05/18 ) . “We believe ...
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Coles signs 'safety and fairness' deal with TWU for its supply chain
WFD: "We just won't work with people who do the wrong thing," Coles chief executive John Durkan declared moments after signing two historic supply chain memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) on Wednesday (May 23). The union said the MOUs were 18-months in the making and contained principles to ensure "safe and ...
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