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ACTU inquiry into insecure work: Hearings to be held in February and March. See website . Work Health and Safety Seminar: Exploring the new OH&S legislation. Lunchtime, January 31, Chartered Secretaries Australia (CSA), Sydney. See CSA website for more details. Senate inquiry into Fair Work Amendment (Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry) Bi...

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718065.

Bisexual firefighter's personality not suitable for job: VCAT

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A bisexual fire fighter missed out on jobs at the Victorian public service due to his "bull at the gate" mentality, not his sexual orientation, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has determined. Kenneth Campagnolo worked as a fire fighter for the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) during the 1996/97 and 1997/98 f...

ACCC okays collective bargaining for film and TV writers

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has allowed the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) to collectively negotiate model terms and conditions of engagement with the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). The ACCC said the model terms and conditions awould enable about 2,500 film/TV writers "to have more effective input" ...

Questions over senior Qantas pilot's right to transfer

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WFD: The Federal Court has refused to restrict Qantas from transferring three pilots to Brisbane after a more senior pilot claimed the company had breached its employment contract by overlooking his transfer request. Under clause 13 of the Qantas Long Haul Agreement, base transfers must be allocated on the basis of seniority to sufficiently qualifi...

Some comfort for ugg boot makers

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WFD: 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 footwear items. It stood down 34 of its 66 e...

Aussie Day parks ban in Victoria

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WFD: Victorian public servants went 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) - enforced a 24-hour ban on park gates across the state, and stopped work for four hours from 7p...

Pizza franchise accused of slicing workers' pay

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The owner of an Eagle Boys pizza franchise is facing prosecution for allegedly underpaying 19 young staff a total of almost $50,000. The Fair Work Ombudsman claims Stacborn Pty Ltd, which runs the Eagle Boys store in Cessnock, NSW, paid employees a flat rate of $9 per hour. The juniors should have been paid at least $12 per hour and the adults betw...

Sex workers can't find 'secure' work, neither can teachers, builders…

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The peak organisation representing sex workers says decriminalising all forms of sex work across Australia would help them find 'secure' work and stay out of poverty. In its submission to the ACTU inquiry into insecure work, the Scarlett Alliance said it was almost impossible for sex workers into find permanent, secure work. (Continued) Make all se...

AMWU to push for voluntary redundancies at Toyota

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WFD: The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) will pressure Toyota to opt for voluntary redundancies instead of 350 forced ones as announced by the company on Monday (January 23), AMWU vehicle division secretary Ian Jones told Workforce Daily . He is seeking an urgent meeting with Toyota Australia chief executive Max Yasuda to push the cas...

Suncorp fails stay attempt in health & safety EA clause case

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Suncorp has failed in its bid to stay a ruling binding the company to a heath and safety clause in its national enterprise agreement. Last week (January 22), Commissioner Diana Spencer ruled the tribunal did have jurisdiction to hear a dispute resolution application brought by employee Coralynn Brewer ( WF18055 ) . Brewer claimed her manager had ha...

Editorial team

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 9208 4559, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.

HSU inquiry will not be completed before March

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The much-anticipated investigation into the financial dealings of the Health Services Union (HSU) is "nearing completion" but will not be released before March, Fair Work Australia has confirmed. The tribunal is investigating alleged irregularities of the HSU accounts during Labor MP Craig Thomson's tenure as national secretary. The HSU had referre...

FWA says Bunnings right to sack death threat employee

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Fair Work Australia has upheld the dismissal of a Bunnings employee who threatened to shoot a female member of staff and "take out" the entire workforce at the hardware retailer's store in Cairns. The tribunal heard Bruce Potter worked for the hardware giant from June 19, 2007 until his summary dismissal on December 15, 2010. Bunnings dismissed Pot...

FWA throws ‘one workplace-one union' tradition out the window

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In a significant demarcation decision opening up the scope of union coverage in s137A of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act, a Fair Work Australia full bench has rejected the "traditional" assumption that competition between unions for membership at the workplace level is undesirable and should be discouraged. "The freedom of employees to...

Another blight for Baiada group - $60k underpayment in SA

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BPL Adelaide (BPLA), part of the controversial Baiada Poultry group of companies, has been forced to back-pay half of its Wingfield workforce a total of almost $60,000. The underpayments were uncovered after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation found BPLA had underpaid five Wingfield workers just over $400. Following that investigation, BPLA did a s...

Abbott slams FW Act's productivity credentials

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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has attacked the Fair Work Act's record on productivity in a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra today (January 31). "There are many problems with the government's so-called Fair Work Act," he said. "There's a flexibility problem, a militancy problem but above all else a productivity problem which is hardly s...

Equal pay decision tomorrow

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Fair Work Australia is due to make its much-anticipated decision on the social and community services (SACS) equal remuneration case tomorrow (February 1). A full bench will hand down its decision in Melbourne at 12pm. The case has been running for almost two years ( WF17235 ) and has been hit with a series of delays. In May 2011, FWAfound women in...

Port Kembla strike

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Workers at BHP Biliton's Port Kembla coal terminal are poised to strike for 24 hours from tomorrow after enterprise agreement talks broke down. Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) district president Bob Timbs told Workforce Daily associate news service Workforce NSW the coal terminal workers had rejected the company's latest offer...

Unfair dismissal & adverse action claims on the rise: FWA report

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The number of unfair dismissal and general protections claims filed with Fair Work Australia continue to climb, quarterly reports from the tribunal reveal. Some 3,505 unfair dismissal applications were lodged under s394 between October 1 and December 31, 2011 up from 3,417 in the previous quarter and 3,164 lodged in Oct-Dec 2010. Most - 2,123 - wer...
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