Those looking to offshore jobs need to know labour disputes in BRICS countries such as China, India and Indonesia are “more confrontational, spontaneous and violent”, two management academics have warned. Professor Fang Lee Cooke from Monash University's department of management and Associate Professor Peter McGraw from Macquarie Univer...
Managing labour relations in Asia
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Increasing training wages will cost 12,000 apprentice positions: MBA
Master Builders Australia (MBA) says the Fair Work Commission modern awards review panel should reject union calls to increase apprentice wages. The MBA says union-sought increases for first and second year apprentices would threaten up to 12,000 construction apprenticeships. The Aust Council of Trades Union's modern awards review submission regard...
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ATO manager treated fairly in redundancy process: full court
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was not obliged to provide a worker with an opportunity to respond to performance criticisms included in an internal review of her application for redundancy because the ATO ultimately approved her redundancy, a Federal Court Full Court has ruled. The Full Court heard 59-year-old Cheryl Weeks sought redundancy f...
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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. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Thomson to face the music as TMH drops appeal for two year limits
Toyota Material Handling NSW Pty Ltd (TMH) has withdrawn its High Court challenge over the Workplace Relations Act's statute of limitations, in effect removing the possibility of a limitation defence for ex-Health Services Union boss Craig Thomson. TMH had sought leave to appeal a Full Federal Court judgment that found the Fair Work Ombudsman was n...
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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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FWC bench rules on interpretation of s311 biz transfer 'arrangement'
In a significant transfer of business decision, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled one party “must have assumed at least a moral obligation, or given an ' assurance' or ' undertaking' that it will act in a certain way”, for there to have been an 'arrangement' an employee was being transferred along with the business. The bench ...
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Fair Work GM could fight full stay of Thomson case
The Fair Work Commission general manager (GM) this week could push to have significant parts of its case against ex-Health Services Union (HSU) boss Craig Thomson proceed despite parallel and potentially overlapping criminal proceedings. Workforce Daily understands that some of the Fair Work allegations against Thomson overlap with the Victorian Po...
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Shorten fronts MUA conference, rubbishes Abetz militancy warning
Shorten fronts MUA conference, rubbishes Abetz militancy warning Workplace relations minister Bill Shorten has given short shrift to Opposition calls that he not speak at today's Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) WA branch annual conference in Perth. The minister gave an off-the-cuff opening speech at the event shortly before presstime, and slammed...
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Call centre operator to appeal ‘malicious' FWO underpayment case
The four-year long wages underpayment case involving NSW-based call centre operator Quincolli Pty Ltd and the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) is not yet over ( WF18563 ) . Norm Potter, managing director for the call centre's former operator Well Done Pty Ltd, told Workforce stablemate HR Report they will appeal last week's Federal Magistrate Court decisi...
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Unions & officials barred from stopping work at $250m Qld project
The Federal Court has barred three unions and six union officials from hindering work on the $250m Laing O'Rourke (LOR) McLachlan & Ann Street (M&A) development in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. The court found the unions - the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), the Qld Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) and the Communication...
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Bargaining report praises MSDs but reflects GFB ‘disappointment'
Unions are “overwhelmingly” disappointed with the Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining (GFB) provisions while employers are surprised at how little the provisions affect them, according to a new research on Fair Work Australia's (now Fair Work Comission) influence on enterprise agreement-making. The research , commissioned by the tribu...
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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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Unions & officials barred from stopping work at $250m Qld project
WFD: The Federal Court has barred three unions and six union officials from hindering work on the $250m Laing O'Rourke (LOR) McLachlan & Ann Street (M&A) development in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. The court found the unions - the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), the Qld Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) and the Communic...
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Bargaining report praises MSDs but reflects GFB 'disappointment'
WFD: Unions are "overwhelmingly" disappointed with the Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining (GFB) provisions while employers are surprised at how little the provisions affect them, according to a new research on Fair Work Australia's (now Fair Work Commission) influence on enterprise agreement-making. The research , commissioned by the tribunal an...
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FWC bench rules on interpretation of s311 biz transfer 'arrangement'
WFD: In a significant transfer of business decision, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled one party "must have assumed at least a moral obligation, or given an ' assurance' or ' undertaking' that it will act in a certain way", for there to have been an 'arrangement' an employee was being transferred along with the business. The bench - Senio...
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Employers slam 457 visa reform as kowtow to CFMEU agenda
WFD: 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 lang...
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Call centre operator to appeal 'malicious' FWO underpayment case
WFD: The four-year long wages underpayment case involving NSW-based call centre operator Quincolli Pty Ltd and the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) is not yet over ( WF18563 ) . Norm Potter, managing director for the call centre's former operator Well Done Pty Ltd, told Workforce stablemate HR Report they will appeal last week's Federal Magistrate Court d...
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Managing labour relations in Asia
WFD: Those looking to offshore jobs need to know labour disputes in BRICS countries such as China, India and Indonesia are "more confrontational, spontaneous and violent", two management academics have warned. Professor Fang Lee Cooke from Monash University's department of management and Associate Professor Peter McGraw from Macquarie University's ...
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Increasing training wages will cost 12,000 apprentice positions: MBA
WFD: Master Builders Australia (MBA) says the Fair Work Commission modern awards review panel should reject union calls to increase apprentice wages. The MBA says union-sought increases for first and second year apprentices would threaten up to 12,000 construction apprenticeships. The ACTU's modern awards review submission regarding the Building an...
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