Fair Work Australia Vice President Graeme Watson has slammed the level of national debate around productivity as a “finger-pointing”, points-scoring exercise that has been “derailed at the macro level”. Speaking at the 11 th Workforce Conference last Friday, VP Watson said he had a “problem with debates about productiv...
Recalibrate productivity debate to employee engagement: VP Watson
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Editorial team
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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Revenge of the nerd: FM upholds medical certificate for TV contestant
A weather observer and Beauty and the Geek contestant has won reinstatement after a court found his employer took adverse action against him by sacking him for planning to appear on the reality television show while on sick leave. On July 26, 2011, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) sacked relief weather observer Adam Marshall, arguing “surround...
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Tax dishonesty not relevant to ‘trust and confidence' obligation
The Federal Magistrates Court has rejected an employer's claim a worker's false tax returns were grounds for dismissal because they breached implied trust and confidence obligations. The worker said she managed the business's financial records, but Federal Magistrate Norah Hartnett ruled there was no “relevant connection” between the wo...
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Editorial team
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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AMWU says HR Nicholls spectre looms large in Little Creatures
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victoria branch secretary Steve Dargavel has rubbished numerous industrial tort-based allegations made in the Victorian Supreme Court that the union has been a nuisance and interfered with a brewing company's contractual relations. He told Workforce Daily “consultants with connections to the HR Ni...
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Vale Joe Riordan
Former Australian Industrial Relations Commission senior deputy president Joe Riordan passed away on Sunday. Riordan was a member of the AIRC from 1986 to 1995. He was the father of Fair Work Australia Commissioner Bernie Riordan. A NSW state funeral will be held at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, 389 Port Hacking Road, Caringbah at 12:00pm thi...
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McDonald challenged in CFMEU WA branch election
Building workers will know next week whether long-serving Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union Western Australia construction and energy division assistant secretary Joe McDonald will be returned to the job - or replaced by organiser Mark Hudston. The ballot for the WA branch positions has been marred by allegations unnamed individuals hav...
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ALAEA claims pay win in arbitration gamble
Cobham engineers have achieved a “modest” 0.75% increase on the company's final offer of a 11% pay rise over three years, after the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) scrapped flagged industrial action and took the matter to arbitration ( WF18435 ). The overall adjustment of 11.75% over the life of the proposed e...
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Jeff Jackson implicated in Asmar membership purge
Federal Court has found that former Health Services Union Vic No 1 secretary Jeff Jackson breached union rules by refusing to accept membership dues from a potential election rival back in 2009. In his reasons handed down this week to allow Diana Asmar to nominate in the upcoming branch elections, Justice Richard Tracey found that the union had del...
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Editorial Team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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ALAEA claims pay win in arbitration gamble
WFD: Cobham engineers have achieved a "modest" 0.75% increase on the company's final offer of an 11% pay rise over three years, after the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) scrapped flagged industrial action and took the matter to arbitration ( WF18435 ). The overall adjustment of 11.75% over the life of the proposed enterpr...
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Federal Court still retains discretion to order relief under BCII Act
WFD: 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) was "c...
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Aligning lodgment times could result in less overall compensation
WFD: 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 for both ...
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AMWU says HR Nicholls spectre looms large in Little Creatures
WFD: Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victoria branch secretary Steve Dargavel has rubbished numerous Dollar Sweets-inspired industrial tort-based allegations made against the union in the Victorian Supreme Court. The TFG Group claimed the union has been a "nuisance" and interfered with the company's contractual relations. Dargavel tol...
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Vale Joe Riordan
WFD: Former Australian Industrial Relations Commission senior deputy president Joe Riordan passed away on Sunday November 18. Riordan was a member of the AIRC from 1986 to 1995. He was the father of Fair Work Australia Commissioner Bernie Riordan. A NSW state funeral was held on pressday (November 23) at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Caring...
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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 (FSU) national secretary Leon Carter's a...
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TWU knocked back compromise deal before Qantas fleet grounding
WFD: 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 unions las...
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Fed Govt hosts IT skills forum
On Tuesday (November 20) Federal Govt skills minister Chris Evans hosted the ICT Skills in the Workplace Forum . Representatives from CISCO, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra and Westpac attended the forum, sharing ideas on how to tackle the country's IT skills shortage. The Australian Workplace and Productivity Agency has estimated Australia has abo...
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Recalibrate productivity debate to employee engagement: VP Watson
WFD: Fair Work Australia Vice President Graeme Watson has slammed the level of national debate around productivity as a "finger-pointing", points-scoring exercise that has been "derailed at the macro level". Speaking at the 11 th Workforce Conference last Friday, VP Watson said he had a "problem with debates about productivity and workplace relatio...
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