WFD: Fair Work Australia has rejected an Australian Services Union (ASU) push to have private sector lawyers with less than five years' experience covered under the Legal Services Award. The union also sought to have law firms foot the bill for barrister's apparel and Law Society dues. Ai Group, the Australian Federation of Employers and Industry, ...
Top law firms shoot down award coverage bid, including gown costs
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3.7% rise in yearly wage price index
WFD: The wage price index (WPI) rose 3.7% in the 12 months between September 2011 and 2012, latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal. Increases ranged from 2.3% for retail trade to 5.3% for wholesale. The overall WPI rose 0.9% on the July, 2012 figure.
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Offshore safety lagging: ACTU
Safety standards in Australia's offshore oil and gas industry lag behind the country's international competitors, a union-backed report released on Tuesday (November 13) claims. The report , titled Offshore Safety Project, was commissioned by the ACTU, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Australian Workers Union (AWU). The unions enlisted...
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Nurses threaten action over assaults
Victoria's Royal Children Hospital (RCH) executives met with union representatives yesterday (November 15) over fears nurses working on overnight shifts in the adolescent mental health ward were at greater risk of patient assaults. The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) estimated nurses in the unit experienced on average one assault a month, alleg...
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Diary
National Community Summit on Insecure Work in Australia: Nov 22-23, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalists: Steve Andrew, Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718475. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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ETU Vic to raise further evidence of electoral irregularities
WFD: The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Victorian branch will seek to push new grounds for an electoral inquiry into the union's national executive in the wake of this week's Federal Full Court decision that undermines the Vic branch's arguments (WF18472) . Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Flick yesterday (November 15) directed the branch to apply by ...
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AMMA attacks new FWA VP jobs, slams Opposition as scared rabbits
WFD: The Australian Mines & Metals Association (AMMA) has upped the criticism of moves to create two new statutory vice president roles at Fair Work Australia, arguing Labor is "stacking" the tribunal. Its submission to the Senate inquiry into the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2012 reinforces concerns raised by the Australian Chamber of Commerce &am...
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WA releases IR reforms
WFD: The Western Australia Government is seeking public comment on a raft of IR reforms. It introduced the draft Labour Relations Legislation Amendment and Repeal Bill 2012 in the state Parliament on Wednesday (November 14), with submissions closing on January 31, 2013. Heading the bill is a plan to overhaul the state's private sector awards system...
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HSU administrator seeks comp
The Health Services Union NSW administrator has formally launched proceedings to recover monies from former HSU East head Michael Williamson in the state industrial court. The case is being brought under s270 of the NSW IR Act and was listed for directions yesterday before President Justice Roger Boland. S270 allows the NSW IR Commission to award c...
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'Year of disappointment': Ai Group
Ai Group chief Innes Willox has sought to present a middle road in the industrial relations debate, rejecting an over-emphasis on labour market deregulation as the answer to productivity. But the employer body maintained warnings that "difficult" legislative changes would lead to business closures and offshoring. Responding to Australian Council of...
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Dismissal applicant to pay costs due to failure to seek legal advice
Fair Work Australia has ruled an unrepresented unfair dismissal applicant should pay her employer's costs because she failed to seek legal advice that her claim was without reasonable prospects of success due to her signing a termination and release agreement (TRA). However, Commissioner Michelle Bissett reduced those costs to 25% of the total afte...
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Asmar allowed to stand as candidate in HSU election
The Federal Court has rendered void an Australian Electoral Commission returning officer's decision preventing Diana Asmar from running as candidate in Health Services Union Victoria No 1 branch elections. Justice Richard Tracey found she was incorrectly removed from the union's membership. Justice Tracey delivered the orders on the second day of t...
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Federal Court still retains discretion to order relief under BCII Act
The Federal Court has ruled that the AbiGroup decision preventing the extension of injunctive orders against “unlawful conduct” under the repealed Building Construction Improvement Act does not restrict the court's discretion to vary such injunctions when finalising proceedings. Justice Berna Collier held the AbiGroup decision (WF18435)...
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Mahindra Satyam warns ageing population to hasten offshoring
Venki Prathivadi, Australia's head of Indian IT outsourcing giant Mahindra Satyam, says the country's ageing population means there will eventually be too few Australians left to do IT jobs. Speaking at the 11 th Workforce Conference, Prathivadi provided a compelling counter-narrative to Finance Sector Union national secretary Leon Carter's attack ...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Ex-HSU deputy claims $100k-plus in denied entitlements
Exclusive Former Health Services Union (HSU) East deputy secretary Peter Mylan has launched a general protections claim against the union, accusing the administrator of denying him more than $100,000 in entitlements after Mylan refused to admit excessive salary increases were “wrongful payments”. The administrator, former Federal Court ...
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FW Act needs to address tension between GFB and no concessions
Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) construction division national secretary Dave Noonan has argued the Fair Work Act needs to make clear that collective agreements must be concluded so as to prevent employers from exploiting ambiguities and engaging in surface bargaining. Speaking at the Workforce conference last Friday, Noonan said ...
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Aligning lodgment times could result in less overall compensation
Legislative changes aligning the timeframe for lodging general protections applications with that for unfair dismissals will likely see a shift to the latter's “less costly” stream, according to a Federal Government Regulation Impact Statement (RIS). The RIS said proposed amendments to the Fair Work Act to make lodgment times 21 days fo...
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TWU knocked back compromise deal before Qantas fleet grounding
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) knocked back a compromise deal which included increased wages and favourable staff/labour hire ratios in the lead up to the 2011 fleet grounding, Qantas IR manager Peter Smith has revealed. Speaking at the Workforce Conference last Friday, Smith, who was on the “frontline” of the bitter dispute with uni...
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