WFD: The Queensland Industrial Registrar has referred the Qld Retail Traders and Shopkeepers Association (QRTA) election for office-holders to the Industrial Relations Commission, after finding evidence of irregularities. Considering IGA store owner and former QRTSA executive member John Hockings' application for an election inquiry, Industrial Reg...
Inquiry into irregularities of QRTSA election
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Anderson slams 457 debate language, calls for leadership
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Peter Anderson says Australia's reputation is being trashed abroad because of “intemperate language” used by Government and union officials in the skilled migration debate. Speaking at the International Labour and Employment Relations Association 8th Asian Regional Congress in ...
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FWC bench rejected EA voted up by four as hundreds excluded
A Fair Work Commission full bench has quashed the approval of a construction industry enterprise agreement (EA) after finding it unfairly excluded the votes of hundreds of project workers on greenfields deals. MI&E Holdings intended its agreement to apply throughout all Western Australia and cover workers in more than 70 classifications in buil...
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Abetz coy on permitted matters ...
Opposition IR spokesperson Senator Eric Abetz has downplayed speculation the Opposition will overhaul permitted matters in enterprise bargaining should it win government. Speaking off-the-cuff during a Q&A session at an IR conference in Melbourne yesterday, Abetz was quizzed about the range of permitted matters that ought to be allowed in barga...
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Unemployment up 0.2%
The unemployment rate increased 0.2% to 5.6% in March, the latest ABS Labour Force figures have revealed. The number of unemployed people rose by 25,900 people to 686,900, the ABS reported. It said the number of people employed decreased by 36,100 to 11,592,700.
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Award bench rejects pay for no work in public holiday ruling
A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected almost all union proposals to boost public holiday provisions in modern awards, but has directed further proceedings to consider flexibility over methods of compensation. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) had proposed general award variations that would see full-time workers - who do not re...
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Union fails to penalise foreman for ‘refusing' entry after calling police
Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union organisers were not wrongfully refused entry while inspecting suspected health and safety breaches because the site foreman's refusal was “conditional”, a Federal Magistrates Court has found. On December 6, 2011, three CFMEU organisers, Brian Miller, Chikmann Koh and Mansour Razaghi, entered a c...
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FWC full bench notes evidence of IFA irregularities
A Fair Work Commission full bench has inserted a clarification that individual flexibility agreements (IFAs) cannot be entered into until after an employee has started employment, in light of evidence “a significant number of IFAs were entered into” contrary to the intent of the Fair Work Act. The bench - Justice President Iain Ross, Se...
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FWC/ILO sign knowledge exchange and professional training MOU
The Fair Work Commission has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation (ILO). ILO deputy director general Greg Vines signed off on the deal with FWC President Justice Iain Ross yesterday (April 15). Justice Ross said the MOU would allow “greater scope for engagement [between the two organisat...
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Vic teachers deal imminent
A new deal for Victorian public school teachers is expected late today or tomorrow, the Australian Education Union (AEU) told Workforce Daily shortly before presstime. AEU Vic branch president Meredith Peace was in talks with Vic Government negotiators when Workforce went to press. That meeting - where parties are resolving the “final minor s...
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ACTU demands family-friendly work right of appeal in Fair Work Act
The Aust Council of Trade Unions has called on the Federal Government to change the Fair Work Act to allow workers to appeal family-friendly working arrangement request decisions. It has released a report claiming many workers were “struggling to cope with a lack of due process” when asking for employers for such arrangements. The summa...
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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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MUA wins fight for access to LNG construction site
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has defeated employer attempts to bar it from the $20bn LNG project on Queensland's Curtis Island after the Fair Work Commission found excavator operators at the project's construction site were in fact stevedores. Bechtel had sought to bar the MUA from the island by arguing the union was not eligible to cover ...
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Flexible work changes ‘unfair' to workers: BHPB
BHP Billiton (BHPB) has led the charge against the Federal Government's second tranche of Fair Work Act amendments. It has slammed the changes to flexible working arrangements as an “unreasonable” incursion into managerial prerogative and warning they would raise worker expectations “in a way which may be unrealistic”. Simil...
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AEU to announce 18% pay deal
Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian branch president Meredith Peace is poised to announce a new pay deal for Vic public school teachers at a press conference in Melbourne at 3.30pm today. An AEU spokesperson told Workforce Daily final negotiations with state government officials were still underway at presstime. However, Workforce understand...
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High Court to consider ‘strike pay'
The High Court has granted special leave to the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) to run its case that employers should not be allowed to withdraw staff accommodation during periods of protected action. The appeal is a significant test of the right to strike for fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers who often depend on such accommodation. T...
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Bench rules FWC can extend ‘use it or lose it' 30-day right to strike
In a significant ruling on the Fair Work Act's ‘use it or lose it' right to take protected industrial action within 30 days of a ballot vote, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled the tribunal can extend that time period at its discretion. There have been several cases where single commissioners have extended the 30-day period in s459(3...
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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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Opposition to Shorten on WR policy: ‘Show us yours first'
The Opposition has dismissed intensifying Federal Government calls for it to release its workplace relations policy. A spokesperson for WR shadow minister Senator Eric Abetz told Workforce Daily : “So they [the Govt] have released their policy have they? Oh, they haven't? Well, we're happy for them to release their policy and then we might ha...
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