Fairfax Media is extending its superannuation contributions to workers on parental leave, after years of union campaigning at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald to “close the super gap”. The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) said the decision “will have far-reaching implications for the whole media industry”. In em...
Fairfax extends super to parental leave
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Judge slams ‘despicable' CEO caught with secret recording device
A former chief executive sacked after secretly placing a recording device under a colleague's desk has been ordered to pay costs for “harassing or annoying the company” by initiating Federal Circuit Court (FCC) proceedings. Rodney Hepburn worked as legal counsel for Beauty Services Holdings from October 2016, and in March 2017 he was ap...
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Removal of confidential documents warranted dismissal
A worker who removed confidential documents from her employer's premises after being told she was being made redundant breached the terms of her employment and she was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. The cmn found Joan Obuchowski knowingly breached RNTT Pty Ltd, trading as Jobs Statewide Employment Solutions, confidentiality a...
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Maritime union faces record fine
The Federal Court was deciding at presstime whether to impose a record $3.5m fine on a union for illegal strike action ( WF 1/12/17 ). The penalty hearing follows a November 2017 finding by Justice Jayne Jagot the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) breached the Fair Work Act's s417(1) when it organised seven days of illegal strikes after Hutchinson ...
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Cleaner's resignation over feared wages cut not unfair dismissal
A cleaner told he would be paid less per cleaning job but there would be more jobs taking less time was not constructively dismissed, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found. Tossing out the unfair dismissal claim, Deputy President Richard Clancy said he was not persuaded employer Espresso Apartments brought Alirio Londono's seven-year employment ...
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Minimum wage decision lands tomorrow
Tomorrow (June 1) the Fair Work Commission will hand down its decision on the 2017-18 Annual Wage Review. The expert panel's decision will be broadcast live at 11am, via video link on the cmn's website .
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Cash tells lawyers to have AWU raids subpoena set aside
WFD: 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 Wednesd...
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Canon GPS tracking its workers is a 'dispute' matter: FWC
WFD: 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, argui...
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'Anxiety, disruption' over industrial action not enough to change ballot
WFD: 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...
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Less than half of workers in full-time jobs, insecure work rising
WFD: 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 2...
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Parliament cleaners gain job certainty under new contractor
WFD: 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 contrac...
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Full Court upholds One Key EA junking as no genuine agreement
WFD: 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, Anna Katzmann and...
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WA CFMMEU boss ordered to do emotional training for RoE permit
WFD: 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 20...
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Optus 'step-change': another 400 jobs to be 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 redeployment...
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ABCC launches first BCIIP Act anti-picketing case against CFMMEU
WFD: 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 names the CFMMEU and three of its representatives - John Perkovic, Kane Pearson ...
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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) assistant secretary Scott Connolly said (see b...
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Vic Labor to criminalise wage theft, create new 'employment watchdog'
WFD: 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), spee...
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Employer slugged $211k in landmark FWO racial discrim case
WFD: 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 employee...
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No police clues on when AWU-raids-media-tip-off-probe will be finished
WFD: 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 probed a...
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Linfox defence workers walk off over 'insulting' pay offer
WFD: Workers at Department of Defence distribution centres run by Linfox Logistics 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. O...
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