More than 215 days on from the controversial police raids on Australian Workers' Union (AWU) offices ( WF 25/10/17 ) , Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Andrew Colvin says he doesn't know when an investigation into who tipped off the media will be finished. “I don't have a timeline for when it will finish,” Colvin said when p...
No police clues on when AWU-raids-media-tip-off-probe will be finished
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Linfox defence workers walk off over ‘insulting' pay offer
Workers at Department of Defence distribution centres run by LinfoxLogistics are ramping up their industrial campaign in protest over the company's pay offer of just an extra 2.1-2.3% a year for four years. On May 18, 55 workers at Moorebank, NSW walked off the job after wearing their National Union of Workers (NUW) hats during their shift. On May ...
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‘Devastating blow' to workers as Virgin Mobile exits Australia: CEPU
Two hundred Virgin Mobile workers will be out of a job as Optus pulls the plug on its Virgin Mobile brand, the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) says. Optus has announced all 36 Virgin stores will close nationwide, over the next two years. Workforce understands the Virgin Mobile brand will cease, with sales and marketing consolidated ...
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Vic Labor to criminalise wage theft, create new ‘employment watchdog'
Victorian employers could face jail time for ripping off their workers, after Premier Daniel Andrews promised to criminalise wage theft if Labor is re-elected. If implemented, Victoria would become the first state in Australia to make wage theft a crime. Andrews also promised to introduce criminal industrial manslaughter laws (see below), speed up ...
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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
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NAB sued in ‘student placement or employee' test case
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...
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Vic Labor to criminalise wage theft, create new ‘employment watchdog'
Victorian employers could face jail time for ripping off their workers, after Premier Daniel Andrews promised to criminalise wage theft if Labor is re-elected. If implemented, Victoria would become the first state in Australia to make wage theft a crime. Andrews also promised to introduce criminal industrial manslaughter laws (see below), speed up ...
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WA CFMMEU boss ordered to do emotional training for RoE permit
Western Australia's most senior construction union official Walter ‘Vinnie' Molina must undertake emotional training to qualify for a new right-of-entry (RoE) permit. Molina, president of the WA branch of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU), has been fined several times for breaking industrial laws, including the 2...
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ACTU slams PC report call to sever IR system from superannuation
Unions have slammed a Productivity Commission (PC) recommendation to sever the IR system from the superannuation pipeline. “Working Australians built superannuation and it belongs to working Australians. At all times the interests of members must be put first,” Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus said (see ...
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Full Court upholds One Key EA junking as no genuine agreement
In a significant decision on the so-called “authenticity” and “moral authority” of arguably sham enterprise agreements (EA), a Full Court of the Federal Court has upheld the junking of a deal voted up by just three employees yet pegged against multiple industry awards and occupations. The Full Court - Justices Mordy Bromberg...
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ABCC launches first BCIIP Act anti-picketing case against CFMMEU
The Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) has launched its first case under new unlawful picketing industrial laws, targeting the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU). In a statement of claim filed in the Federal Court, the ABCC alleges the CFMMEU and three of its representatives -John Perkovic, Kane Pearson and ...
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Optus ‘step-change': 400 jobs cut
Singtel Optus will make 400 jobs across the country redundant in a move it says is necessary to help remain competitive in a “disruptive market”. This comes after it last week revealed 200 jobs would go from its Virgin brand ( below ), while it cut more than 500 jobs last year. An Optus spokesperson told Workforce Daily it will discuss ...
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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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ABCC launches first BCIIP Act anti-picketing case against CFMMEU
The Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) has launched its first case under new unlawful picketing industrial laws, targeting the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU). In a statement of claim filed in the Federal Court, the ABCC alleges the CFMMEU and three of its representatives -John Perkovic, Kane Pearson and ...
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Cash tells lawyers to have AWU raids subpoena set aside
Jobs minister Senator Michaelia Cash will attempt to have the Federal Court set aside a subpoena for her to give evidence in August at the trial over police raids on union offices. “I will comply with the legal process. As part of that process I have issued instructions to the lawyers to have the subpoena set aside,” Cash told media on ...
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Less than half of workers in full-time jobs, insecure work rising
For the first time since job statistic records began, more than half of working Australians are experiencing insecure work, including part-time, casual and self-employment, the Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work research reveals. The Dimensions of Insecure Work report , which compared Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data from 2012 t...
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‘Anxiety, disruption' over industrial action not enough to change ballot
Charles Darwin University workers will vote on whether to take industrial action, after the employer lost a challenge to the National Tertiary Education Industry Union's (NTEU) protected action ballot (PAB) in the Fair Work Commission. However, the union will have to give the university five days of written notice, rather than three legislated in t...
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Parliament cleaners gain job certainty under new contractor
After weeks of uncertainty, about 40 Parliament House cleaners have received commitment from the new contractor that their hours and wages will remain the same, United Voice (UV) says. Earlier this month, Dimeo Cleaning Services won a $45m federal government tender to provide cleaning services within parliament. Limro Cleaning lost the contract, af...
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Canon GPS tracking its workers is a ‘dispute' matter: FWC
Objections raised by the Australian Service Union (ASU) to Canon's plans to introduce GPS tracking technology on the mobile telephones of its technicians satisfied the requirements of a “dispute” under the terms of the Canon enterprise agreement (EA), the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found. Canon opposed the ASU's dispute notification...
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Security guards strike at Vic defence sites over Wilson deal
Wilson Security guards working at Australian defence sites in Victoria are refusing to process visitors and perform bag or vehicle checks or patrols, as they begin protected industrial action over a 15-month pay dispute. United Voice (UV) said 24-hour work stoppages across 14 Australian army, navy and air force locations began at 6am on press day (...
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