Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
Editorial team
↧
↧
HSU Vic branch election set for delay as Fed Court rules for Asmar
Health Services Union (HSU) Victorian no.1 branch elections look certain to be delayed after the Federal Court today ruled an inquiry will be held to determine the eligibility of ALP Right faction-backed candidate Diana Asmar. The Australian Electoral Commission rejected Asmar's nomination for general secretary, claiming she had not been a “c...
↧
Tribunal rejects ‘slavery' complaint
A Fair Work Australia applicant has failed in his attempt to invoke the Slave Trade Act in his appeal against Coles Supermarket's decision to transfer him to another store. Minhaj Mansoor alleged Coles transferred him to another store by force and cited discrimination and bullying legislation as well as the Slave Trade Act 1824 (UK) as grounds for ...
↧
Ports and MUA back in talks
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Freemantle Ports were in talks on press day (October 25) in an attempt to resolve their 11-month pay dispute, which saw workers down tools for four days earlier this month ( WF18365 ) . The union is seeking two new enterprise agreements coveringstevedores in the bulk handling facility at Kwinana - and port ...
↧
AIPA returns leadership
The Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) has returned its leadership team. President Captain Barry Jackson and vice presidents Captain Richard Woodward, Captain Brad Hodson and Captain David Backhouse were re-elected this week. Conceding the past year had been “tough”, Jackson told Workforce Daily the fight for pilot j...
↧
↧
Qantas IR manager to reveal IR plans for 2013 and beyond
Qantas IR manager Peter Smith will talk about the airline's approach in dealing with unions such as AIPA and the Transport Workers Union at the 11 th Annual Workforce Conference in Melbourne on November 16. For more information ring Janelle Torr on 02 8587 7686, email her on janelle.torr@thomsonreuters.com or book your place here .
↧
1,500 jobs on the line at Rio NT mine
Pacific Aluminium's (Rio Tinto) Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery “must remain fully operational”, according to the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). The union was responding to a Pacific Aluminium announcement it would conduct a review of its Gove operations in the Northern Territory AWU national secretary Paul Howes said Rio Tinto...
↧
HSU Vic branch election set for delay as Fed Court rules for Asmar
WFD: Health Services Union (HSU) Victorian no.1 branch elections look certain to be delayed after the Federal Court yesterday (October 25) ruled an inquiry will be held to determine the eligibility of ALP Right faction-backed candidate Diana Asmar. The Australian Electoral Commission rejected Asmar's nomination for general secretary, claiming she h...
↧
CFMEU hit with $550K fine for strikes against 'sham contracting'
WFD: The Federal Court has ordered the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) to pay more than half a million dollars to Lend Lease for unlawful industrial action taken as part of the unions' sham contracting campaign last year. In her decision on penalties handed down last Friday (...
↧
↧
Freemantle Port/ MUA back in talks
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Freemantle Ports have resumed talks in an attempt to resolve their 11-month pay dispute, which saw workers down tools for four days earlier this month ( WF18365 ) . The union is seeking two new enterprise agreements covering stevedores in the bulk handling facility at Kwinana - and port services workers at ...
↧
Bowen Basin EA voted up: Parties trade off pay for rosters/labour hire
WFD: The 23-month Bowen Basin coal mines industrial dispute has ended with 60% of workers voting up a new enterprise agreement delivering 5%-a-year pay increases over three years, and a $15,000 annual bonus payment. The yearly bonus is a major win for workers as the $15,000 amount had previously been tabled only as a one-off sign-on bonus, a union ...
↧
Greens call for inquiry into state public sector job cuts
WFD: Greens deputy leader and MP Adam Bandt has joined with Queensland unions to call for a federal inquiry into conservative state governments' public sector job cuts. The inquiry's terms of reference will include whether recent state laws breach international labour standards and whether the Fair Work Act is "properly protecting" public sector wo...
↧
Headbutting union official's dismissal ‘denial of natural justice'
Fair Work Australia has found a Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) official was unfairly dismissed for alleged physical assaults due to the employer's “severely flawed” investigation. This was despite Zeb Dewson admitting he headbutted an employee at a work Christmas party. Boom Logistics Pty Ltd's dismissal of crane oper...
↧
↧
FWA limits fixed-term conversion
WFD: Fair Work Australia has restricted Macquarie University's fixed-term conversion clauses to only new contracts after rejecting the National Tertiary Education Union's (NTEU) interpretation they applied to all contracts, including those pre-existing the clauses. The NTEU has complained its interpretation was the basis for its concessions during ...
↧
Road Safety Tribunal orders to sit above modern awards and EAs
WFD: Fair Work Australia Deputy President Jennifer Acton has given her first major speech in her role as inaugural president of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT). Speaking at the Ai Group's National PIR Group Conference on Monday (October 22), President Acton said RSRT remuneration orders would take precedence over modern awards and ente...
↧
AIPA returns leadership
WFD: The Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) has returned its leadership team. President Captain Barry Jackson and vice presidents Captain Richard Woodward, Captain Brad Hodson and Captain David Backhouse were re-elected this week. Conceding the past year had been "tough", Jackson told Workforce Daily the fight for pilot job secu...
↧
Mary-Jo Fisher back in IR
WFD: Former Liberal Senator Mary-Jo Fisher has returned to her industrial relations roots with a job as senior workplace relations advisor for the Printing Industries Association. Fisher resigned from the Senate in August. Before she entered politics in 2007, she worked as a barrister specialising in IR. She was an advisor to Howard Govt IR ministe...
↧
↧
Child care centre fined for telling pregnant worker to quit
WFD: The Fed Ct has ordered a child care centre operator to pay $18,200 to a pregnant employee for "recklessly" denying her unpaid parental leave entitlements and unilaterally cutting her hours of work. Orieta O'Leary, WKO Ltd director and manager of Dinky Di Child Care Centre in WA, admitted reducing Joyce Nederpel's days of work from five to thre...
↧
Bornstein says IR debate so bad it's enough to make cretins weep
WFD: Maurice Blackburn IR principal Josh Bornstein has delivered a scathing assessment of the standard of IR debate engaged in by some business commentators, employer groups and sections of the print media. Speaking at the Australian Industry Group's national personnel and IR conference in Canberra on Tuesday (October 23), Bornstein said the standa...
↧
QIRC halts hospital staff cuts, orders consultation with unions
WFD: The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) has put a halt on plans to cut 110 jobs at the Sunshine Coast Hospital (SCH). QIRC Deputy President Adrian Bloomfield issued orders on Monday (October 22) restraining the hospital's board from implementing organisational changes until it had consulted with the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) ...
↧
More Pages to Explore .....
