Workplace relations practitioners need to think of jobs in terms of “secure mobility” and not just extend “permanent standards” to casuals if they are to confront a changing labour market, according to a senior IR academic. Director of the Workplace Research Centre Professor John Buchanan this morning told the Aust Council o...
Labour ‘flows' - not casual v permanent - key to future of work
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FWC skips hearing, orders each of 20 strikers back to work
The Fair Work Commission has issued individual interim return-to-work orders against 20 Lend Lease workers who allegedly walked off six different sites this week over a dispute about redeployment. Senior Deputy President Peter Richards took the unusual step of issuing the orders without a hearing after finding the 20 were unlikely to attain represe...
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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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Senate report recommends significant 457 visa & EMA reforms
Unions are the big winners in a Senate majority report recommending significant changes to enterprise migration agreements (EMA) and the 457 visa scheme. If the Federal Government implements the changes, it could dramatically recalibrate the foreign worker supply chain for employers. The Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committe...
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Vic dumps IR minister Dalla-Riva
Shortly before presstime, new Victorian Premier Denis Napthine dumped IR minister Richard Dalla-Riva from cabinet to the backbench. The shock move - which comes with Dalla-Riva out of the country on a trade mission to India - was part of a reshuffle that included Deputy Premier Peter Ryan being stripped of the police and emergency services portfoli...
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Five voted against PSA salary cut
The vote of the Public Service Association NSW's central council to remove a rule that prevented salaries for the general secretary and assistant secretaries from being reduced ( WF18592 ) was not after all unanimous, Workforce Daily has been told. Workforce has learnt five members of the executive voted against removing the rule, including the uni...
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Biggest jobs gain in 12 years
The Australian economy added 71,500 jobs in February, the biggest monthly gain in 12 years, with unemployment holding steady at 5.4%. New ABS Labour Force figures revealed the economy added 17,800 full-time and 53,700 part-time jobs in Feb, bringing the total to 11,628,300. The number of people unemployed increased by 400 to 660,000. The ABS report...
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Days lost to IR disputes nosedives to lowest level in 2 years
Days lost to industrial disputes, the number of workers involved, and the number of disputes fell sharply in the December 2012 quarter, new ABS figures have revealed. The ABS reported 58 disputes in the Dec quarter - 10 less than the previous quarter. It said the number of employees involved in disputes fell by almost half - from 55,800 in the Sept...
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Gillard's pen rates as modern award objective plan fires up employers
Employers have launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to change the Fair Work Act to make the protection of penalty rates a modern award objective. However, IR academic Professor Andrew Stewart told Workforce Daily he didn't think it would make any difference in the short-term to how the Fair Work Commission (FWC) dea...
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Australia trails only Chile for highest rate of temporary work
Australia has overtaken Spain and now lags behind only Chile in the OECD for having the highest rate of temporary workers at 27.9%, Aust Council of Trade Union (ACTU) president Ged Kearney told the peak union body's summit in Canberra. Even America - “not normally an example of good workplace rights” - had many more workers employed on ...
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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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Adverse action ruling limits right to make ‘complaints or inquiry'
In a significant decision, the Federal Magistrates Court has ruled an employee's complaints about management approaches are not a workplace right covered by general protections unless they concerned matters in the contractual relationship or underlying statutory framework. The decision, which also found complaints about the management of a small bu...
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Harsh penalties for reg orgs 'premature'
WFD: The Coalition has failed in its bid to criminalise registered organisations' refusal to comply with court orders and to introduce five-year jail terms and fines of up to $340,000. A Senate Committee yesterday reported only two of the inquiry's seven submissions - from the Institute of Public Affairs and the NSW Government - supported the Coali...
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Evidence not 'compelling' on penalty rates risk to small business
WFD: A Senate committee has recommended throwing out independent Senator Nick Xenophon's Bill to exclude small businesses from paying penalty rates after finding no "compelling" evidence to suggest the rates put small businesses at risk. The Labor-dominated committee said "neither anecdotal evidence, nor evidence from unreliable surveys, should be ...
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Senate report recommends significant 457 visa & EMA reforms
WFD: Unions are the big winners in a Senate majority report recommending significant changes to enterprise migration agreements (EMA) and the 457 visa scheme. If the Federal Government implements the changes, it could dramatically recalibrate the foreign worker supply chain for employers. The Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Com...
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457 visa worker exploitation an industrial issue: ACTU
WFD: The Aust Council of Trades Union has launched a confidential hotline service to enable mistreated and exploited 457 visa workers to dob in employers. Noting the political context in which the 457 visa debate has taken place, ACTU secretary Dave Oliver said unions viewed the mistreatment of foreign workers as an "industrial issue, not a migrati...
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FWC orders CPSU not to delay legal aid bargaining
WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered the Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) to respond to Victoria Legal Aid's (VLA) latest offer after the union sought to postpone bargaining meetings until after members had voted on protected action. Last Friday (March 8), VLA applied for bargaining orders against the CPSU Victoria branch. It alleged...
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Shorten confirms ROE & greenfields bargaining FW Act reforms
WFD: As Workforce foreshadowed last Friday ( WF 18585 ) , federal workplace relations minister Bill Shorten has unveiled major changes to the Fair Work Act around greenfields agreement bargaining, and right-of-entry (ROE) for union officials. Shorten confirmed the Fair Work Commission (FWC) would rule on workplace determinations in "limited circums...
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3.5m more workers by 2025, better managers = better productivity
WFD: The Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA) has released its 2013 National Workforce Development Strategy . It says Australia's workforce will grow by 3.5 million people by 2025, with better skills and productivity key factors in maintaining economic growth. The strategy relies on modelling based on several factors, including "labo...
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Vic dumps IR minister Dalla-Riva
WFD: Newly appointed Victorian Premier Denis Napthine has dumped IR minister Richard Dalla-Riva from cabinet to the backbench. The shock move on Wednesday (March 13) - which comes with Dalla-Riva out of the country on a trade mission to India - was part of a reshuffle that included Deputy Premier Peter Ryan being stripped of the police and emergenc...
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