Australian Building Construction Commissioner Stephen McBurney said today's Full Federal Court decision (see below) to slap a construction union official with a personal payment order “makes clear to all union officials that when you break the law, you can no longer rely upon union members to pick up the tab”. “This landmark decis...
ABCC to hit union officials with personal payment orders
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Full Fed Ct first personal payment orders against a union official
In a significant press day decision giving the Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) considerably more “sting” in deterring law-breaking unions, a Full Federal Court has made a personal payment order against construction union official Joseph Myles. The order means Myles himself has to pay the penalty for his part in unlawf...
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FW bench junks ‘not genuine' CPB-AWU Vic projects greenfields deal
The Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union (CFMMEU) has convinced the Fair Work Commission to quash a greenfields deal struck between CPB Contractors and the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) for Victorian civil works projects up to $1bn. A Fair Work Commission full bench ruled the greenfields enterprise agreement (EA) - CPB Contractors (...
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Just 30% of Australian boards received a pay rise
One third of Australia's executive board members received a pay rise in the last financial year, with those on ASX-listed company boards rewarded with on average 5% rises and super fund boards 4.4%, an Australian board remuneration report has revealed. Members of government boards received 2.5% pay rises, and unlisted private companies 4%. The surv...
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Free crack for CFMMEU to sink Downer EDI deal after FWC mistake
The construction union will get a “free crack” to scupper a direct vote Downer EDI enterprise agreement (EA) after the deal's approval was quashed because it was made without the hearing commissioner's “knowledge or consent”. The Fair Work Commission issued a decision - purportedly signed off by Cmr Leigh Johns - approving t...
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‘Genuine bargaining may be a thing of the past': CPSU
Tomorrow (June 27) the Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) will encourage National Gallery of Australia (NGA) staff to vote for the employer's proposed enterprise agreement (EA) even though it is “not a document CPSU can recommend”. But since workers have been bargaining since 2013 without a pay rise “further delay is not in memb...
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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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IPA email probe launched but dead end looms with Lloyd's departure
Australian Public Service (APS) acting Merit Protection Commissioner (MPC) Mark Davidson has confirmed an investigation has been launched into out-going APS Commissioner John Lloyd. Davidson confirmed the probe in a letter tabled in Senate estimates last Thursday (June 21). The investigation relates to Lloyd's alleged APS code of conduct breaches f...
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Just 30% of Australian boards received a pay rise
One third of Australia's executive board members received a pay rise in the last financial year, with those on ASX-listed company boards rewarded with on average 5% rises and super fund boards 4.4%, an Australian board remuneration report has revealed. Members of government boards received 2.5% pay rises, and unlisted private companies 4%. The surv...
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A financial storm's a-comin - ABCC unleashes next personal cost orders
The Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) has declared open season on law-breaking union officials, confirming to Workforce Daily it will seek personal payment orders against construction union Tasmanian branch organisers Richard Hassett and Kevin Harkins. The building watchdog's move comes hot on the heels of Monday's landmark Full Fe...
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NSW Labor to endorse gig economy worker protections
The NSW Labor Party is expected to endorse a motion to give food delivery riders the same rights as truck drivers, including minimum pay rates and the right to bring complaints against their employer, at its state conference this weekend. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) said it will put forward a motion to amend chapter six of the NSW Industrial ...
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Workers ‘staunch' on Esso picket line, as dispute marks one year
Tomorrow (June 28) Esso UGL workers will mark one year since they began picketing outside the Longford gas plant. “We will continue until it's resolved, and we're waiting for UGL to negotiate in good faith to see if this can be resolved,” Australian Workers' Union (AWU) Victorian secretary Ben Davis told Workforce Daily. In June 2017, 2...
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NGA says EA retains ‘strong consultative mechanisms'
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) has refuted union claims that its new enterprise agreement (EA) will strip workers of representation and consultation protections. “The NGA consulted and negotiated with union and staff bargaining representatives regularly during the making of the agreement,” a NGA spokesperson told Workforce Dail...
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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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WAIRC's Jennifer Smith appointed judge of WA Supreme Court
Western Australia Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) Acting President Jennifer Smith has been appointed a judge of the WA Supreme Court. The appointment takes effect today (June 27). Smith has been an acting WA Supreme Court judge since last August. In 2006, she became the first woman to be appointed a WAIRC senior cmr. Between 1988 and 2000, ...
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Greens release IR policy, calls for strike rights on environment issues
The Greens released its IR policy on press day (June 27), calling for increased rights to strike including on “environmental interests”, industry-wide bargaining, and jacking up the minimum wage to 60% of the adult median wage. The Greens will use the policy as its starting bargaining position in the Senate if Labor wins the next federa...
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Unions claim landmark win over ‘blacklisting'
Unions have claimed an historic win after successfully opposing summary dismissal of a blacklisting discrimination claim against two companies who allegedly imposed ‘do not employ' warnings on three former contract employees because of their union activities. The three matters had now been listed for a joint directions hearing in the Victoria...
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Toyota supervisor fairly sacked for ‘blatant, benevolent sexism'
Toyota Motor's decision to sack a male supervisor for creating a “weird and dirty atmosphere at work” by making “overly sexualised remarks” to young female workers has been upheld by the Fair Work Commission (FWC). Toyota accused Homer Abarra, aged 50, of massaging young women, having two female workers sit on his lap and si...
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'You're fired!': $20k compo for Donald Trump-style sacking
In a lesson to small 'business owners to observe procedural fairness, the Fair Work Commission has awarded almost $20,000 to a 62-year-old man on the receiving end of a “Donald Trump”-style sacking. The cmn heard on November 15, 2017, Two Shores Holiday Village owner Raymond Smith sacked Anthony Morley on the spot upon discovering the g...
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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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