WFD: The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) says Grocon locked out its safety officers and union officials from a Melbourne site on Tuesday (February 19) following the death of a crane operator on Monday (Feb 18). CFMEU Vic branch secretary John Setka told Workforce news associate Occupational Health News union officials were banned ...
Union clashes with Grocon over safety after worker death
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Banks clawing at super as AWU EAs fail to nominate default fund
WFD: The big four banks are threatening unions' "pivotal" role in superannuation funds by offering sweeteners to employers to transfer default funds to retail funds, according to the head of Australia's largest industry fund. On Tuesday (February 19), Australian Superannuation CEO Ian Silk told delegates at the Australian Workers Union (AWU) nation...
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Howes lets loose on 'robber barons' as AWU conference kicks off
WFD: 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 aluminium smelter. In his keynote speech to the AWU conference on Monday (February 18), Howes on the one hand berated Albanese for over-seeing the ...
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iUnion: AWU Qld goes digital
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) Queensland branch has broken new ground by developing its own iPad app. The AWU Qld secretary Ben Swan told the national conference the branch had spent $40,000 to supply 57 officials with iPads at the start of last year. The iPads included an internally developed AWU app that featured all relevant documents, incl...
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Public service employment rate fall worst since 1984: ACTU
WFD: The number of public sector jobs in Australia has fallen for the first time in a decade, new research by the Aust Council of Trade Unions has revealed. The ACTU Jobs Report said more than 50,000 jobs were shed nationally in the year to November 2012, with about half of the cuts taking place in NSW and Queensland. Public service jobs fell by 6....
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FWC orders reinstatement of $500,000 man
WFD: 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 Victor...
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AWU claims win in $10.5m law suit
WFD: The Australian Workers Union (AWU) has declared victory in its fight against McDermott Australia's million-dollar law suit that threatened to cripple the union. In late 2011, the construction company filed Federal Court action against the AWU, suing the union for $10.5 million for taking unprotected industrial action in the Bass Strait during ...
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AWU delegates to target marginal seats
WFD: The Australian Workers Union (AWU) will deploy thousands of union delegates to target key marginal seats within the coming weeks as it pledges a “unique” direct action campaign to secure the re-election of the Gillard Government. AWU national secretary Paul Howes told the national conference on the Gold Coast yesterday (February 21...
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Ai Group calls for IFAs to apply to annual leave
WFD: 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 flexib...
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Unions, employers thumbs up to Fed Govt $1 billion jobs plan
WFD: Unions have hailed the Federal Government's $1bn 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 projects; $500m to establish 10 Industry Innovation Precincts (IIPs); and $350m for a venture capital fund to invest in innovative start up...
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Bargaining dispute applications trending downwards: FWC report
WFD: 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 - 2009/10 to 2011/12 - and is part of the FWC general ...
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Average weekly pay up 4.8%, mining industry leads all by $718 margin
WFD: Full-time (FT) adult average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE) increased by 4.8% to $1,393 in the 12 months to November 2012, new ABS figures have revealed. The FT total average weekly earnings (including overtime) increased 4.7% to $1,453.60 (4.8% for males and 4.6% for females). The all-employees average (including part-time workers) inc...
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Diary
Labour Law Seminar: March 7, 1-2pm, The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton. Professor Brian Langille from the University of Toronto will speak on the topic ‘Labour Law Dominos' . Register here . National Community Summit on Insecure Work in Australia: March 13-15, Old Parliament Ho...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com. Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718565. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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More bank jobs go offshore
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) says it will ask ANZ to introduce a voluntary redundancy and redeployment process to cover 131 jobs being outsourced to India. A union spokesperson told Workforce it was “unacceptable” that three of the Big Four banks were persisting with offshoring on “economic grounds” when the biggest bank -...
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Telstra to cut 648 Sensis jobs
WFD: Telstra has confirmed it will cut 648 jobs from its 3,500 Sensis Yellow and White Pages directories workforce. The division's business model has been under pressure to make a “digital transition”, Sensis managing director John Allen said in a statement. "We are working with our staff and the unions to provide further detail of our ...
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'Go away' money paid in majority of unfair dismissal claims: FWC report
WFD: Most employers are forking out between $2,000 and $4,000 in so-called 'go away' money in 60% of unfair dismissal cases settled at conciliation, a new Fair Work Commission report has revealed. The report provides data on FW tribunal unfair dismissal cases under the Fair Work Act from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2012. It finally puts figures to mon...
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CFMEU slugged $10k for Derek Christopher assault threat
WFD: The CFMEU Victorian branch has been slugged $10,000 in the Federal Magistrates Court after it admitted one of its officials had threatened to assault a site manager. The Fair Work Building Commission said organiser Derek Christopher “repeatedly abused a site manager and threatened him with assault” at the RMIT Building 13 construct...
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Boss to pay due to ‘possible but not probable' redundancy alternative
The Fair Work Commission has granted more than $10,000 in compensation to a retrenched worker because there was a “25%” possibility he would have kept working if his employer had consulted him first. Commissioner Julius Roe said software developer InfoTrak could have resolved its concerns about operations manager, Georg Thomas, who was ...
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Employers slam 457 visa reform as kowtow to CFMEU agenda
As flagged in Workforce earlier this month ( WF18545 ) , new immigration minister Brendan O'Connor has announced significant reforms to the 457 temporary skilled worker visa program. The changes include: Tougher criteria for employers to demonstrate a genuine skills shortage exists before sponsoring foreign workers; More stringent English language ...
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