WFD: In a decision canvassing transfer of business, family responsibility, redundancy and unfair dismissal provisions, the Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to pay a retrenched worker three months' compensation because it failed to consult her. Vice President Graeme Watson found Galaxy Electric dismissed café manager Kristen Severino aft...
Failure to consult was the employer's loss: FWC
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Govt flags expanding ‘right to request'
WFD: The Gillard Government will seek to extend the right to request flexible working arrangements to a wider range of carers, as part of the second tranche of amendments to the Fair Work Act to be introduced over this week and next. Speaking last weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard also flagged the govt would legislate to boost protections for w...
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Govt ditches compulsion for flexible work requests
WFD: The Federal Government has committed to significantly broaden the right to request flexible working arrangements to include workers with children of all ages and all forms of caring responsibilities. However, it has rejected any enforcement measures, including the Fair Work Act Review Panel's recommendation employers be required to discuss req...
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Chevron to blame for costs blow out on Gorgon project, says union
WFD: The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says Chevron - not unions - is to blame for the $9bn costs blow out on the Gorgon project. Describing the Barrow Island oil and gas project as "like a 1970s council job" in an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review , MUA Western Australian branch secretary Chris Cain said it was "time for Chevron...
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Diary
Australian Workers Union national conference: Feb 17-21, Jupiters Gold Coast, Qld. Labour Relations Summit - Labour Relations in the Asian Century: Feb 19, InterContinental Sydney. Speakers include Alan Wild (VP HR Global Technology Services, IBM); Stephen Gaskell (Global VP IR, BP plc); and academics Professor Fang Lee Cooke (Monash) and Associate...
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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: 314021718555. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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FWC survey contradicts employer criticisms of IFAs
The Fair Work Commission has found only about one in 10 employers have made individual flexibility arrangements (IFAs) but few cited problems about their lack of flexibility. The extensive survey , released yesterday (February 14) as part of the FWC general manager's reporting requirements, confirms that IFAs are rarely used. However, it also appea...
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FWC looking into ETU NSW
The Fair Work Commission general manager has kicked off an inquiry into the NSW Electrical Trades Union (ETU). A FWC spokesperson would not comment to Workforce about the inquiry, launched on Monday (February 11), nor who made a complaint. A NSW ETU spokesperson said neither the NSW union nor the national branch were aware of the inquiry and the na...
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Govt to make family impact talks compulsory for roster changes
The Federal Government will amend model consultation clauses in awards and enterprise agreements to make compulsory consultation with employees about the impact of roster changes on family life. WR minister Bill Shorten announced the move as part of a week-long release of family-friendly IR policies, first broached by the govt last week (see, Govt ...
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AMWU facing s355 coercion rap in Werribee blockade
WFD: The Federal Court has issued an injunction barring the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) from organising or taking part in a blockade of the $40 million City West Water project in Werribee, Victoria. Justice Shane Marshall said - based on the evidence presented in a hearing on Tuesday (see, Collier busted over secret recording, bel...
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Collier busted over secret recording
WFD: In a bizarre exchange in the Federal Court on Tuesday (February 12), Justice Shane Marshall questioned the tactics used by prominent IR consultant Grace Collier to make secret recordings of union officials with a device hidden in her bra. Collier's recording was used by the Fair Work Building and Construction (FWBC) inspectorate in its case ag...
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Sensis jobs in doubt
Telstra has refused to comment on speculation up to 500 jobs could go from its Sensis print and digital business. The Australian this week suggested the jobs would go as part of a revamp of Sensis, which produces the Yellow and White Pages telephone directories.Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union national secretary Dan Dwyer told Workforce...
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Judge slams Vic Govt for delay in seeking to stop strike
WFD: As thousands of Victorian teachers and support staff went on strike yesterday (February 14), the Federal Court has criticised the Vic Government for its delayed and "self-evidently" weak attempt to stop the strike. In his reasons for refusing the govt's interlocutory application last week, Justice Chris Jessup said it should have acted back in...
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Vic teachers vote to continue stoppages
WFD: Thousands of public school teachers, principals and support staff took mass industrial action across Victoria yesterday (February 14), with workers voting to have further stoppages over the next few months. Education workers voted on resolutions to continue half-day rolling stoppages across the state and throughout Term 2 (April 15 to June 28)...
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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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Unions, employers thumbs up to Fed Govt $1 billion jobs plan
Unions have hailed the Federal Government's new $1 billion jobs plan as a “game changer”. The plan - A Plan for Australian Jobs - has three main components: legislating for local industry participation in $500m plus major projects; $500m to establish 10 Industry Innovation Precincts (IIPs); and $350m for a venture capital fund to invest...
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Ai Group calls for IFAs to apply to annual leave
The Australian Industry Group has released a submission it has made to the Fair Work Commission's modern awards review, calling for an overhaul of the model award flexibility clause. Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox called on the FWC bench to correct a “glaring omission” in the model flexibility clause: it does not allow individual...
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Bargaining dispute applications trending downwards: FWC report
Bargaining orders, majority support determinations and applications to deal with disputes have decreased markedly since the Fair Work Act took effect in 2009, a new Fair Work Commission report has revealed. The extensive report on enterprise bargaining under the FW Act captures three years - 2009 to 2012 - and is part of the FWC general manager's r...
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FWC orders reinstatement of $500,000 man
The Fair Work Commission has ordered Geelong Hospital to reinstate a sacked anaesthetist, finding he should have been disciplined, not dismissed, for criticising management. Barwon Health claimed Dr Mark Colson repeatedly refused orders to comply with billing practices for after-hours work at the hospital, which is located in south-west Victoria. F...
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Howes lets loose on ‘robber barons' as AWU conference kicks off
Australian Workers Union (AWU) national secretary Paul Howes has taken a parting shot at recently-departed Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese as he celebrated his union's win at the mining giant's Bell Bay aluminum smelter. In his keynote speech to the AWU conference today, Howes on the one hand berated Albanese for over-seeing the company's $14 billion wr...
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