The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) will pressure Toyota to opt for voluntary redundancies instead of 350 forced ones as announced by the company yesterday, AMWU vehicle division secretary Ian Jones told Workforce Daily at press time. He is seeking an urgent meeting with Toyota Australia chief executive Max Yasuda to push the case. Ya...
AMWU to push for voluntary redundancies at Toyota
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 9208 4559, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Forcing annual leave contradicts its social imperative
Fair Work Australia has criticised a manufacturing company's unilateral refusal of workers' annual leave requests if it had already approved another employee to have those days off. From September 2008, ACI Operations' Spotswood glass works in Melbourne imposed an annual leave directive that only one maintenance fitter and one maintenance electrici...
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Sham contracting investigation reveals rough Diamond
A luxury Tasmanian resort which sacked employees and illegally forced them to become independent contractors has been ordered to repay them almost $40,000 in total. The Federal Court heard one employee Maclean Bay Pty Ltd forced to become a contractor was a laundry worker who had an intellectual disability. Maclean Bay expected her to manage her ta...
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Is farm caretaker an employee?
A Fair Work Australia full bench has allowed an appeal into an unfair dismissal ruling due to questions over whether there had been an employment relationship between a farm 'caretaker' and the property owner. However, it criticised the owner for not arguing the jurisdictional issue until the matter was before them. FWA heard Vee Kelly had placed a...
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Decision is final: Toyota rules out voluntary redundancies
Toyota's decision on forced redundancies is final and the company will not bow to union pressure ( WF18062 ) to offer voluntary redundancies, a company spokesman told Workforce Daily . "No, we won't be offering voluntary redundancies," Toyota public affairs manager Glenn Campbell said. "Compulsory redundancies is the action we need to undertake to ...
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Aussie Day parks ban in Victoria
Victorian public servants will go on the offensive on Australia Day by shutting down the state's national parks. Members of three unions - the Australian Workers Union (AWU), Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and Australian Services Union (ASU) - will enforce a 24-hour ban on park gates across the state tomorrow, and will stop work for four ...
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FWA rules itself out of Schweppes dispute
Fair Work Australia has refused to rule on an application from drinks giant Schweppes to deal with a dispute over whether it could replace striking workers with managers at its Tullamarine plant. The parties have been blueing at Tullamarine for about six months over a new pay deal. The Schweppes (Tullamarine) Production and Warehouse Employees Ente...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 9208 4559, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Some comfort for ugg boot makers
An Australian ugg boot company has been forced to compensate about half of its workers who it stood down for two days due to a late shipment from China. Fair Work Australia heard Emu Australia did not have enough work for its workers in June 2011 due to a delayed shipment of soles, insoles and other such items. It stood down 34 of its 66 employees ...
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ABCC's demise will result in cost hikes and lawlessness: Lloyd
WFD: Former Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) head John Lloyd has slammed the Federal Government's plans to change the BCII Act so it can abolish the ABCC. In a strongly-worded eight-page submission to the Senate committee inquiry into the Building Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011, Llo...
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Are NSW real estate agents paying commission to staff?
Real estate agents in NSW and hotel owners in Queensland are the focus of two new campaigns by the workplace regulator. Over the next two months the Fair Work Ombudsman is planning to check the books of 350 real estate agents - 120 in Sydney and 230 in regional areas. The FWO said concerns had been raised that some real estate employers are not com...
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Labor stalwart Hull resigns
Victorian Deputy Opposition Leader and ex-IR minister Rob Hulls has resigned this morning citing health and family reasons. Hulls was the long-time Attorney General under the Bracks and Brumby Governments. For more, see Workforce Daily next week.
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ACTU seeks wage review delay due to conference clash
The ACTU has asked Fair Work Australia to move its Wage Review final consultation session due to a clash with the peak body's annual conference. The consultations had been set down for May 14 to 18, but ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence has requested it be shifted to the week beginning May 21. The ACTU biannual conference will be held in Sydney from May...
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CFMEU and McDonald hit with another big fine
WFD: Union heavyweight Joe McDonald has been fined $38,500 for repeatedly stalling work at a high rise building site in Perth. The Federal Court also fined his union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), $192,500 noting McDonald and the union's behaviour did "not demonstrate a willingness to comply with industrial law". The Fe...
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Sham contracting investigation reveals rough Diamond
WFD: A luxury Tasmanian resort which sacked employees and illegally forced them to become independent contractors has been ordered to repay them almost $40,000 in total. The Federal Court heard one employee Maclean Bay Pty Ltd forced to become a contractor was a laundry worker who had an intellectual disability. Maclean Bay expected her to manage h...
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Sacking public servants: A guide
The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has updated its guide on terminating public servants, bringing it in line with the Fair Work laws. It notes terminating an employee is governed by the Public Service Act 1999 and "is subject to a number of checks and balances". However the guide is not comprehensive and must be read with other APS pub...
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FWA approves opt out clause in Newlands EA
Fair Work Australia has approved a controversial enterprise agreement allowing 154 workers at Xtrata's Newlands coalmine in Queensland to opt out of a collective union agreement and on to individual employment contracts. The tribunal foreshadowed approval late last year with a full bench 2:1 majority decision in favour of the 'opt out' clause provi...
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Forcing annual leave contradicts its social imperative
WFD: Fair Work Australia has criticised a manufacturing company's unilateral refusal of workers' annual leave requests if it had already approved another employee to have those days off. From September 2008, ACI Operations' Spotswood glass works in Melbourne imposed an annual leave directive that only one maintenance fitter and one maintenance elec...
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FWA's first workplace determination handed down for Qantas engineers
WFD: A Fair Work Australia full bench has handed down the tribunal's first s266 workplace determination ruling, binding Qantas and about 1600 of its engineers to an arbitrated deal until December 31, 2014. The bench - Vice President Graeme Watson, Justice Alan Boulton and Commissioner Julius Roe - more or less gave effect to consent agreement terms...
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