WFD: 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 consolid...
'Devastating blow' to workers as Virgin Mobile exits Australia: CEPU
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Diary
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...
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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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FWC ups min wage 3.5% but unions cry poor as employers cry wolf
Unions have welcomed today's Fair Work Commission decision to increase the minimum wage by a record 3.5% as a “step in the right direction” despite not getting the $50-a-week hike they had asked for. Instead the seven-member minimum wage panel led by FWC President Justice Iain Ross lifted the minimum wage by $24.32 a week to $719.20 (se...
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ACCC knocked back $3m CFMMEU offer in Boral Setka-led boycott case
The Federal Court has ordered the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU) to foot 40% of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's legal bill in the Boral secondary boycott case which saw the union slapped with a record $1m fine earlier this year ( WF 16/02/18 , WF 24/11/17 ). And in a post-script to the John Setka bu...
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No ALP amnesty for super dodgers
The Opposition says it will strongly oppose a planned amnesty for businesses that failed to make superannuation guarantee payments to workers between mid-1992 and 2018. Last week the govt introduced legislation giving a 12-month amnesty to employers who have failed to pay since July 1, 1992. It claims the move will encourage backpayments. However, ...
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Qld Rail's green light to bust RTBU closed shop and hire new drivers
Queensland Rail (QR) has been given the green light to recruit train drivers externally after a Fair Work Commission full bench tossed out the rail union's claim its members had first dibs on jobs. QR advertised for 200 drivers and 200 guards leading up to the state's ‘rail fail' crisis in late 2016 that saw Qld's rail network plunge into cha...
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Union hopeful for ‘fruitful' Aldi truck driver safety talks
Aldi Foods will hold talks with the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) this week about truck driver safety, after the supermarket delayed its related Federal Court case by three months to allow for mediation between the parties. The court case is examining whether Aldi suffered loss of corporate reputation, potential supply and sales due to the TWU's c...
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CSIRO executive resigned and was not sacked: FWC
A former executive director at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has failed to show it unfairly dismissed him. Instead, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) found Dr Neil Stringfellow resigned his employment after refusing to take up an alternative position. The cmn heard in 2017 Stringfellow was told he no longer h...
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Aldi's NERR word substitutions no trivial matter: FWC full bench
A Fair Work Commission full bench has shredded Aldi's argument that changing the word ‘employer' to ‘leader' in notices of employee representational rights (NERR) was a “trivial” matter. The supermarket giant made that claim in an appeal against Deputy President Geoff Bull's 2017 decision not to approve Aldi's Derrimut and M...
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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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Public Service Commissioner quits after Senate grilling
Australia's Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd has announced his resignation amid questions over his conduct. In a statement, an Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) spokesperson said Lloyd had written to Governor General Peter Cosgrove on press day (June 4), advising that he will step down from his position on August 8. “We have n...
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Court workers vote on ‘far from perfect', real-wage-cutting EA
After 43 rounds of industrial action, Federal Court workers were at press time finally voting on an enterprise agreement (EA) that improves working conditions for the workforce. However, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) admits the EA “is far from perfect”, with a four-year wage freeze leaving federal, circuit and family cour...
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FWC calls out employer attempt to pay drivers ‘as little as possible'
Vehicle relocation drivers will be included under the Road Transport Award, after a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench tossed out employer arguments they should be paid under a “made up” lower award rate. The bench - Senior Deputy President Jonathan Hamberger, DP Peter Sams and Commissioner Tim Lee - also rejected employer claims tha...
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Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander studies workers ‘rebuke' first offer
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) workers have delivered “a massive rebuke to management” and the Federal Government's workplace bargaining policy, by rejecting their first enterprise agreement (EA) offer with a 74% no vote, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says. The union said A...
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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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CFMMEU says FWC Eureka flag finding a rebuff to ABCC code
In a recommendation made to resolve a dispute that the Fair Work Commission won't publish on its website, Commissioner Bernie Riordan has found the Eureka and construction union flags can be displayed from cranes on building sites. Cmr Riordan issued his s739 “without prejudice” recommendations privately to Watpac and the Construction F...
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7-Eleven store slugged $192k for wages theft competitive ‘leg up'
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has secured almost $200,000 in penalties against the operators of a 7-Eleven outlet in Brisbane for short-changing overseas workers and doctoring pay records. Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta fined S & A Enterprises Pty Ltd $160,650 and company director Avinash Pratap Singh $32,130 for rorting two Indian...
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BHP social media sacking upheld, posts not WHS Act ‘representation'
In a significant Facebook-related unfair dismissal decision, the Fair Work Commission has found worker “representation” rights under work health & safety (WHS) legislation does not extend to communicating on social media. Commissioner Tony Saunders made the finding in upholding the sacking of WHS representative and construction unio...
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Federal court workers endorse EA
Federal court workers have endorsed the latest enterprise agreement (EA) proposal, with 96% of the 78% who participated voting ‘yes', the press day (June 6) ballot result revealed. After four years of bargaining, the Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) had said this offer was “far from perfect” but good enough for it to recommend...
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