WFD: The Australian Mines & Metals Association (AMMA) has put the heat on the Coalition to front up with IR policies by declaring it will "scorecard" political parties on IR issues in the lead-up to the federal election. AMMA chief executive Steve Knott told Workforce Daily the scoring would be against AMMA's newly-released document - Workplace...
AMMA reveals new IR scorecard, waits on Coalition to front up
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FWC skips hearing, orders each of 20 strikers back to work
WFD: 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 re...
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Australia trails only Chile for highest rate of temporary work
WFD: 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 on insecure work in Canberra this week. Even America - "not normally an example of good workplace rights" - had many more ...
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Fall in DEEWR jobs indicator
The Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)'s monthly leading indicator of employment indicator has fallen for the second consecutive month, after rising for six consecutive months previously. The March 2013 figures were not helped by a slide in the ANZ Newspaper Job Ads series and the Dun and Bradstreet Employment Expect...
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Diary
8th International Labour and Employment Relations Association Asian Regional Congress: April 9-12, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Queensland IR Society Lunch: May 10, 12pm @ Pullman King George Square, Cnr Ann and Roma Sts in the CBD. Guest speaker FWC President Justice Iain Ross - ‘ Developments in Fair Work Australia - Future D...
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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. Product code: 314021718595. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Adverse action ruling limits right to make 'complaints or inquiry
WFD: 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 concern matters in the contractual relationship or underlying statutory framework. Federal Magistrate Michael Burnett said the decision, which also found co...
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‘Broad' Federal Court interpretation still binding
The impact of the In Control Federal Magistrate adverse action decision could be limited due to the binding authority of a previous Federal Court decision. Maurice Blackburn principal Terri Butler pointed out to Workforce that, contrary to the Federal Magistrate Michael Burnett's statement (above) , the courts had previously considered the proper c...
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Biggest jobs gain in 12 years
WFD: Australia 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 unemployment rate ...
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Days lost to IR disputes nosedives to lowest level in 2 years
WFD: 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...
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Five voted against PSA salary cut
WFD: The Public Service Association NSW vote to remove a rule that prevented $200k-plus salaries for the general secretary and assistant secretaries from being reduced was not after all unanimous, Workforce Daily has been told (see WF18592 or PSA seeks to reduce mega salaries, below) . Workforce has learnt five members of the executive voted agains...
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Gillard's pen rates as modern award objective plan fires up employers
WFD: 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...
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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 full bench maintains penalty rates, but open to annualised salary
A Fair Work Commission full bench transitional review of penalty rates in modern awards has rejected employer calls to reduce rates in the retail, fast food, hospitality and hair & beauty industries. However, the bench left the door open for employers to consider incorporating penalty rates into annualised salaries. The bench - President Justic...
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ICAC targets Maitland, clears CFMEU
Former union heavyweight and one of the original architects of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union, John Maitland, has been accused of using a proposed training mine as a “cover story” to snare the coal exploration license that made him a multi-millionaire. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) today began t...
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FWO readies for 457 visa cop role
The Fair Work Ombudsman will gain extra powers to crack down on 457 visa compliance, Workplace Relations minister Bill Shorten and Immigration minister Brendan O'Connor have announced. The FWO already monitors 457 visa matters in regards to unpaid entitlements. From July 1, the Government wants to require employers to pay 457 visa workers market-ba...
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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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Agreement cannot be made with future ‘associated' employers
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) template agreement that would apply to an employer's future associated entities, finding it failed the “fairly chosen” test. Senior Deputy President Peter Richards said the Queensland branch's template clause covering all the “related and as...
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FM rules out adverse action, slams Austin Health for shabby treatment
The Federal Magistrates Court has cleared Austin Health of taking adverse action against a long-serving employee, finding its decision to retrench the worker was to free up money for another hire and not because of complaints she made about pay and classification. However, Federal Magistrate Phillip Burchardt slammed Austin's treatment of mail and ...
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Bench says FWC lacks jurisdiction for hybrid national employer
A Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled that a hybrid national employer created by multiple state and territory laws is not a national employer under the Fair Work Act. The bench last week quashed a decision by Senior Deputy President Ian Watson that the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) was a national employer because i...
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