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Calls to revise national procurement rules in favour of local workers

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WFD: 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 than just ch...

United Petroleum roadhouse fined $118k for withholding PPL payment

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WFD: 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 operato...

Charity fundraising class action given green light by Fed Court

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WFD: 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...

'Three strikes' for companies on publicly-funded projects: Sheldon

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WFD: 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 Sheldon said. "A 'three s...

Wind up poorly resourced FWO and give unions resources: TWU

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WFD: 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 secretary Tony Sheldon said in his TWU...

TWU strikes historic deal with Airbnb on food delivery services

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WFD: The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has struck a landmark deal with Airbnb which will see the global home-sharing platform giant "actively promote package and food delivery companies that adhere to safe rates of pay and union conditions". Airbnb to get TWU seal of approval The union announced the agreement shortly before presstime on May 21, whi...

Australia's first online union launches for hospitality workers

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WFD: "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 "Australia's first digital un...

Fairfax Media's 'aggressive agenda' to slash conditions and pay: union

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WFD: 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, enduring newsrooms" as it b...

Coopers Brewery workers win pay rises, beer allowance in new EA

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WFD: 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 around. "We knew what w...

VP Hatcher knocks back Laundy's MFB deal full bench referral bid

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WFD: 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 Mar...

Labour hire firm suspended over alleged underpayments to workers

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WFD: 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 said late last year MCG Fresh Produce engaged Agri L...

TWU confirms $271k fine appeal

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WFD: 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 Wednesday's Workforce Daily , the union lost a bid to have payment of the fine stayed pending an appeal (see above, TWU cries too poor ...

Far-right worker fined $10k for contempt with Toll shirt video post

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WFD: The Federal Circuit Court (FCC) has issued a suspended $10,000 fine and ordered costs against a former Toll worker who defied a court ruling to stop publishing videos of him wearing the company's uniform ( WF23/02/18 ). Toll Transport took Neil Erikson, who has links to Patriot Blue and United Patriots Front far right groups, to the FCC in Dec...

Editorial Team

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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

Diary

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June 8: Mention for the AWU v ROC case , trial likely for August. June 8: BAL Lawyers, Business Breakfast Club , 8am to 8.45am, Level 9, Canberra House, 40 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra. RSVP before June 1: events@ballawyers.com.au June 11-15: Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (aka amalgamated ‘super union') inaugural annual...

NAB sued in ‘student placement or employee' test case

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A former Swinburne University student is suing National Australia Bank (NAB) for lost wages in a case exploring the long-standing ambiguity around the Fair Work (FW) Act's s15 (definition of employee) exception for vocational placements. In a statement of claim filed in the Federal Circuit Court, Danial Stuart said he worked standard full-time 40-h...

Global cleaning giant ISS hit $132k for rorting AFL matchday cleaners

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Global cleaning giant ISS has been slugged more than $132,000 for rorting foreign students hired to clean up after AFL matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ISS Facility Services Ltd, which is part of the ISS Global group with about 11,000 employees in Australia, holds cleaning contracts with the Melbourne Cricket Club, Crown Casino, six major h...

‘Unprecedented' strike by RBA money printing workers

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Cash and passport printing stopped on press day (May 25) for the first time in 107 years, as workers at the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) money printing facility downed tools in protest over the latest enterprise agreement (EA) offer. Workers hitting targets, breaking records About 160 Note Printing Australia (NPA) workers, including printers, ...

Hundreds of health workers to be unemployed as Vic hospitals close

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Health unions are in crisis meetings with workers and employers after this week's announcement two Victorian private hospitals will close over the next month. Following a review of its 45 hospitals, health provider Healthscope told shareholders it will close Geelong Private Hospital and Cotham Private Hospital as it was “not viable” for...

Employer slugged $211k in landmark FWO racial discrim case

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The former operators of a Tasmanian hotel have copped a massive $211,104 fine for deliberately rorting the wages and entitlements of two Malaysian employees of Chinese descent. It is the Fair Work Ombudsman's first prosecution against an employer for racially discriminating (ie a form of adverse action under the Fair Work Act) against employees ( W...
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