Australia Associated Press (AAP) has given its workers one week to consider their options before it makes 25 journalists redundant, the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) says. AAP management told staff yesterday (June 5) the company planned to cut 15% of its editorial workforce before June 30, the union said. The media agency “has stat...
AAP to slash 15% of workforce
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Picketing XXXX workers hit with draft bargaining orders
Lion Beer is seeking orders preventing XXXX workers picketing the brewery from any act that could “hinder” access to and from its Milton, Qld site, draft interim bargaining orders shown to Workforce Daily reveal. Last week XXXX workers walked out on strike for a ninth time in as many weeks, holding a community rally outside the brewery,...
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Major NSW projects impacted by three-day Downer tradies' strike
Work on major NSW infrastructure projects are being impacted by a three-day strike by Downer Group specialist trades workers in support of a new enterprise agreement (EA). The industrial action, which started on press day, has seen more than 300 workers walk off projects in Newcastle and Wollongong. Projects and sites impacted include the Newcastle...
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Ross slams ‘torturous' awards legalese in rare media interview
In a rare media interview, Fair Work Commission President Justice Iain Ross has told the ABC's Radio National some modern awards were filled with “torturous language” and needed to be made far easier to understand. “These have historically been legal documents written by lawyers,” Justice Ross said. He said the main objectiv...
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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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‘Change the rules' resonates with women: ACTU polling
Union polling has revealed 67% of women have not had a pay rise in the last 12 months, compared to 61% of men. It also reveals 63% of women are against cuts to penalty rates, compared to 50% of men. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) polling indicated insecure work and stagnant wage growth was disproportionately impacting women. It revea...
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Video game workers unite to create the industry's first union
Ten years ago Australia's video game industry was on the brink of collapse, with up to 70% of game studios closing their doors. Hundreds of game developers were left without work and had nowhere to turn to. “We watched helplessly as everything we spent years working on disappeared, without any hope of seeing our wages again,” former gam...
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BOM stops live broadcasts, censors updates as EA dispute rages on
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has stopped live broadcasts in some areas and cracked down on social media posts in what the public sector union says is a “heavy-handed” attempt to gag a bona fide industrial action campaign. The Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) told Workforce Daily BOM management took additional “quality contr...
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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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AWU raids hearing vacated as AFP reveals investigation end date
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will conclude its investigation into media leaks about last year's raids on Australia Workers' Union (AWU) offices on August 1, the union says. The trial over the Registered Organisations Commission investigation into the AWU, and raids on its offices, was adjourned in March pending the end of the police investig...
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NUW lodges $100m wage theft class action case
A wage-theft class action lodged on Monday (June 4) could be the largest action of its type, the National Union of Workers (NUW) claims. The Federal Court action alleges thousands of door-to-door and charity salespeople were paid well below the $17 an hour minimum wage over an 18-month period, because they were wrongly classified as independent con...
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Federal court workers endorse EA
WFD: Federal court workers have endorsed the latest enterprise agreement (EA) proposal, with 96% of the 78% who participated voting ‘yes', Wednesday's (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 recomm...
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Picketing XXXX workers hit with draft bargaining orders
WFD: Lion Beer is seeking orders preventing XXXX workers picketing the brewery from any act that could “hinder” access to and from its Milton, Qld site, draft interim bargaining orders shown to Workforce Daily reveal. Last week XXXX workers walked out on strike for a ninth time in as many weeks, holding a community rally outside the bre...
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7-Eleven store slugged $192k for wages theft competitive ‘leg up'
WFD: 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 I...
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Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander studies workers ‘rebuke' first offer
WFD: 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 s...
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AAP to slash 15% of workforce
WFD: Australia Associated Press (AAP) has given its workers one week to consider their options before it makes 25 journalists redundant, the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) says. AAP management told staff on June 5 the company planned to cut 15% of its editorial workforce before June 30, the union said. The media agency “has stated t...
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CSIRO executive resigned and was not sacked: FWC
WFD: 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 lon...
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Diary
June 11-15: Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (aka amalgamated ‘super union') inaugural annual conference , Gold Coast Convention centre. July 17, 18: ACTU Congress will be held at the Brisbane Convention Centre. August 1-3: Three-day trial over the Registered Organisations Commission's investigation into the AWU, and raids o...
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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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$6k compensation for worker sacked for sleeping on job
Employer Serco Australia was “entitled to take a dim view” of casual detainee services officer Jaqueline Waite sleeping through the bulk of her shift outside the door of a secure area at the mental health ward of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. However, the Fair Work Commission has found its failure to fully inform Waite of the...
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