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Sackings may be necessary for ‘reasonable redeployment'

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The Fair Work Commission has raised the possibility that employers may have to fire contract or casual workers to allow a retrenched employee to be “reasonably” redeployed. Commissioner John Lewin said he would not rule out such a possibility in cases where employers filled a vacant position with casual or contract workers, although he ...

Teachers hail pay deal, but question marks over performance pay

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Victorian public school teachers' 18-month battle for a new enterprise agreement is over with more than 45,000 teachers to receive wage increases of up to 20% in an in-principle agreement struck with the Vic Government late yesterday (WF18633) . The Australian Education Union (AEU) Vic branch council has endorsed the deal. It will take effect once ...

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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

Power strikes over consultation and annual leave; 25% pay deal on table

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Energy Australia has failed to prevent the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) from taking 48-hour strike action at Yallourn power plant in Victoria over claims for fixed staffing levels and genuine consultation over roster changes. Yesterday, Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy refused Energy Australia's interlocutory application to...

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BLF ‘future employers' template EA knocked back again

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The Fair Work Commission has rejected for a second time a Queensland Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) template agreement for seeking to cover future workers and employers. Senior Deputy President Peter Richards first rejected the agreement in mid-March because it sought to cover all the employer's associated entities, including any that may be e...

Power strikes over consultation and annual leave; 25% pay deal on table

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WFD: Energy Australia has failed to prevent the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) from taking 48-hour strike action at Yallourn power plant in Victoria over claims for fixed staffing levels and genuine consultation over roster changes. On Wednesday (April 17), Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy refused Energy Australia's interlocu...

Teachers hail pay deal, but question marks over performance pay

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WFD: Victorian public school teachers' 18-month battle for a new enterprise agreement is over with more than 45,000 teachers to receive wage increases of up to 20% in an in-principle agreement struck with the Vic Government on Wednesday (WF18633) . The Australian Education Union (AEU) Vic branch council has endorsed the deal. It will take effect on...

Flexible work changes ‘unfair' to workers: BHPB

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WFD: 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 warned they would raise worker expectations “in a way which may be unrealistic”. S...

Bench rules FWC can extend 'use it or lose it' 30-day right to strike

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WFD: 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, 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). How...

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FWC full bench notes evidence of IFA irregularities

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WFD: 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 Ros...

RDO public holiday prohibition rejected

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WFD: 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 n...

Campbell acting FWO

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The Fair Work Ombudsman has confirmed its group manager of operations Michael Campbell will act as interim FW Ombudsman in the wake of Nick Wilson's appointment to the Fair Work Commission ( WF18615 ) . Campbell will assume the role on April 29.

Union fails to penalise foreman for ‘refusing' entry after calling police

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WFD: 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, entere...

Joe McDonald back in ALP fold

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Controversial construction union figure Joe McDonald has been allowed back into the Australian Labor Party, six years after Kevin Rudd expelled him after he boasted about beating trespass charges relating to a construction site. McDonald, the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union West Australian assistant secretary, applied to reclaim his membe...

$7.3m FWC pay equity unit

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The Federal Government has committed $7.3 million over four years to establish and run the Pay Equity Unit in the Fair Work Commission, Workforce associate news service Discrimination Alert has reported. Announced by workplace relations minister Bill Shorten earlier this month, the unit will commence operations from July 1, 2013. It will be tasked ...

MUA wins fight to access to LNG construction site

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WFD: 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 exercising stevedoring functions. Bechtel had sought to bar the MUA from the island by arguing the union was not...

FWC/ILO sign knowledge exchange and professional training MOU

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WFD: 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 organisati...

High Court to consider 'strike pay'

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WFD: 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 accommodati...
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