WFD: 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 retrenc...
Boss to pay due to 'possible but not probable' redundancy alternative
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Ai Group calls for 10,000 extra migrants in productivity push
WFD: The Australian Industry Group has called on the Federal Government to introduce “productivity-enhancing measures”, cut company tax to 25%, and bump up the migrant intake from 190,000 to 200,000 a year with a “sharper focus to skilled migration”. In its pre-Budget submission , Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox blamed...
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Senate passes illegal worker hire laws, employers face $15k fines
WFD: The Federal Government's Migration Amendment (Reform of Employer Sanctions) Bill 2012 passed through the Senate on Tuesday (February 26), paving the way for hefty fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal foreign workers. The legislation implements the recommendations from the Howells Review in 2010 ( WF17835 ) . It willcomplement existin...
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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. Journalists: Steve Andrew, Jane Dillon. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Product code: 314021718575. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Mighell resigns, but to stay at ETU to drive union business interests
Dean Mighell has confirmed his resignation as Victorian secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU). The union's state council yesterday endorsed assistant secretary Troy Gray to replace Mighell as of today. Mighell told Workforce he would remain at the ETU as an employee - “not a consultant”. His new role will be to oversee the unio...
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Company not ‘rebadged' for greenfields agreement
The Federal Court has held that a Woolworths subsidiary's greenfields agreement with the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) related to a “genuine new enterprise” even though the parent company had done “significant preparatory work”. Holding company can do ‘prep' work The National Union of Workers...
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Mylan general protections claim tied to Williamson case
Ex-Health Services Union NSW deputy general secretary Peter Mylan is fighting moves to have his general protections application against the union consolidated with corruption claims against ex-HSU boss Michael Williamson. As Workforce revealed last year ( WF18485 ) , Mylan is alleging the union did not pay him his full entitlements when the Federal...
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Fate of FWC case against Thomson delayed until next month
The Federal Court has deferred its decision on whether it has discretion to allow the Fair Work Commission general manager to push ahead with parts of the civil case against MP Craig Thomson. Workforce revealed earlier this week (see below) that parts of the FWC case, including union expenditure during Thomson's Dobell election campaign, could pote...
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Fair Work GM could fight full stay of Thomson case
WFD: 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. Stay under s312 to be debated Workforce Daily understands that some of the Fair Work allegations against Th...
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Thomson to face the music as TMH drops appeal for two year limits
WFD: 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 ex-Health Services Union boss Craig Thomson's possibility of a limitation defence. TMH had sought leave to appeal a Full Federal Court judgment that found the Fair Work Ombudsman was no...
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CFMEU condemns Energy Aust's handling of contract handover
WFD: Energy Australia (Energy) has defended its handling of a security contract handover at the Yallourn, Victoria power station that will leave 11 security officers without jobs. Energy's change of the security contract from ISS to Dynamiq, which took effect from midnight February 28, followed a “rigorous process”, with Dynamiq evaluat...
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Cost number one reason for QBE offshoring, secret docs reveal
WFD: The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has blasted QBE Insurance Group after leaked company documents revealed the company was offshoring at least 700 Australian jobs to the Philippines to exploit lower wages. Company documents obtained by Workforce Daily show QBE (above) had been planning and establishing a “captive-based” Group Shared Se...
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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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Direct staff ballot is GFB breach
The Fair Work Commission has found Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) breached good faith bargaining laws by putting a proposed enterprise agreement direct to employees without waiting for the union to consult its members on the offer. Deputy President Greg Smith today issued a stay order against a staff vote on VLA's offer scheduled to be held this Friday (...
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CFMEU engaged in ‘wanton and extreme' campaign against Grocon
The Victorian Supreme Court has handed down an injunction stopping the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Victorian branch from interfering with contractors supplying concrete and services on Grocon sites in Melbourne. CFMEU lawyer Joel Fetter confirmed to Workforce Daily parties would draw up draft orders as per Justice Anthony Cava...
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No criteria needed for registration: EMSPA
A NSW paramedics association seeking to become the first newly registered state union in 30 years has pushed a “radical” legislative interpretation that no criteria is needed for registration and the Industrial Relations Commission plays a largely formal role. In the first hearing today, the Emergency Medical Services Paramedics Associa...
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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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Labour's share of income collapsed during noughties
Australian real wages must rise faster than productivity growth if workers are to restore labour's share of national income from the 1990s, a new union study has revealed. The Australian Council of Trade Union research published today dismisses claims of a “wages breakout” in Australia, arguing real wages have not kept pace with product...
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NUW & MUA barred from picketing WA record management business
The Federal Court has handed down injunction orders against the National Union of Workers (NUW) and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) over a “steady campaign of picketing” against a SME document management business in WA. Justice Michael Barker said there was a serious issue to be tried as to whether the unions had committed “...
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