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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

Lowe says move to 3% wages growth ‘possible and desirable'

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WFD: Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe says changes to workers' bargaining power, a “cost-control” mentality among employers when it comes to labour, and growth in part-time work are all too blame for “unusually slow” wages growth. Lowe addressed Australian Industry Group members in Melbourne on Wednesday (June ...

Bank workers jobless as ANZ closes branches

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WFD: ANZ will close five Victorian branches by the end of August leaving 18 workers unemployed, in a move the Financial Sector Union (FSU) says puts “profits before people”. Last week the bank sprung an announcement on staff and customers it will close branches in Drysdale, Balaclava and Donvale on August 1, with branches in Daylesford ...

Judge stings wage crooks $134k for workplace ‘disempowerment'

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WFD: The Federal Circuit Court has slugged two related companies - a photocopy shop and café owned by the same person - $134,000 for wages theft. In proceedings brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), Judge Philip Burchardt fined Photoplus Australia Pty Ltd (which formerly operated a mobile phone accessory store in Melbourne's CBD) $68,520; and C...

Unemployment down but ACTU decries ‘fake' jobs

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WFD: Australia's unemployment rate fell by 0.2% to 5.4%, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics Labour Force figures revealed this week. The number of people employed rose by 12,000, seasonally adjusted. However, the number in full-time work fell by 20,600 in May, while those in part-time work rose by 32,600. The ABS said its seasonally adjuste...

Union strike delays transfer of ‘dangerous' Victorian offenders

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The transfer of prisoners across Victoria has been “severely cut back” as half of the state's offender transport drivers begin a 24-hour strike over cuts to wages and conditions, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) says. Negotiations over a new enterprise agreement (EA) for G4S workers began in October last year, and the union said a meet...

‘Strong words never killed anyone': CFMMEU replies to Fed Ct mauling

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The construction union has issued a defiant response to the latest Federal Court fine and stinging reprimand for threatening and abusing workers, including calling them “f--king dog c--ts”. “Strong words never killed anyone. It's a tough industry,” Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU) Western Australia...

Fed Ct slams CFMMEU & Brad Upton for giving unions a bad name

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The Federal Court has fined the construction union and its organiser Bradley Upton $51,300 for intimidating and abusing workers at the Gorgon LNG Project in Western Australia in 2015. The threats included Upton telling workers “we're going to put your names on the back of toilet doors” if they didn't maintain their union memberships ( W...

More young people educated, but less working full-time: 10-year study

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Half of Australians aged under 25 are not in full-time work despite 60% of them holding tertiary qualifications, new research on youth employment has revealed. Researchers at the Foundation of Young Australians (FYA) tracked the journey of 14,000 people aged between 15 and 25 for 10 years. The longitudinal survey found not only were young people wo...

Pizza Hut franchisee blames HQ profit-killing policy for wage theft

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The Federal Circuit Court has slugged a Gold Coast Pizza Hut franchisee $216,700 for exploiting an Indian delivery driver under a sham contract and trying to cover it up. The massive fine, handed down this week, comes as the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) sharpened its focus against sham contracting with a test case against gig economy online food deliv...

AWU refuses to broker $6bn project EA without other unions

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WFD: The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) says it won't betray its fellow construction unions by “going it alone” in a greenfields agreement covering one of Australia's largest construction project - the $6.7bn West Gate Tunnel. Speaking to Workforce Daily on press day, AWU Vic secretary Ben Davis accused the project's construction conso...

Derrick Belan jailed for 4 yrs

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In breaking news at press time, disgraced ex-National Union of Workers secretary Derrick Belan has been jailed for four years for defrauding the union of more than $650,000. The Parramatta Local Court handed down the sentence today (June 18), having earlier found Belan guilty of 61 fraud-related offences between 2011 and 2015 ( WF 29/03/18 ) . Bela...

Downer workers to down tools over pay demands

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Downer workers in Newcastle and Wollongong went on strike on press day over pay demands. In a joint statement, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) confirmed the workers at Downer Group's engineering, construction and maintenance (ECM) division started a series of four-hour work stoppages today (June ...

Roster change stand-off threatens to scupper casino deal

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For six weeks Tasmanian casino workers have been picketing outside luxury Wrest Point Casino as tensions continue to boil over their next enterprise agreement (EA). After two years' negotiating, workers on May 10 voted for protected industrial action and have taken weekly, rolling four-hour strikes to protest the offer of a 1.8%-a-year for three ye...

FWC upholds sacking of serial sexter who preyed on young women

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The Fair Work Commission has upheld the sacking of a 45-year-old council worker who sexted younger female colleagues, including sending pictures of himself lying in bed in just his underwear. Colin Reguero-Puente, who had worked for the City of Rockingham for 30 years, argued his advances were “welcomed and reciprocated” by the women ...

Union boss leads call for industry-wide bargaining in IR system reboot

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United Voice (UV) head Jo Schofield says Australia's workplace laws need to be re-written to create an industry-based collective bargaining system, and has called for support from both sides of politics as “our current broken system has both Labor and Liberal fingerprints on it”. Schofield said for the 120,000 workers UV represented, wh...

Editorial team

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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

Cash's legal fight against AWU subpoena bankrolled by taxpayers

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Taxpayers will foot the bill for Senator Michaelia Cash's legal representation used to respond to subpoenas calling for her to be a witness in the Federal Court trial over raids on Australian Workers' Union offices. At the end of May, Cash told media she would instruct her lawyers to have the subpoena set aside ( WF 30/05/18 ). Attorney-General Chr...

WA awaits IR system review results

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A full review of Western Australia's industrial relations system is complete, and has been handed to the state's commerce and IR minister Bill Johnston. It is the first comprehensive review of the system since 2002. Announced in September last year, the state govt hoped the outcome would include having a “strong independent umpire” in t...

Industry analysis tell different story about ‘rising' job insecurity

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New Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) research aims to “debunk the persistent myth” that job insecurity is increasing, revealing the “proportion” of casual work is the same now as 20 years ago. “As a proportion of the workforce, casual work has fluctuated between 19% and 21% of the total workforce over the past two ...
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