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ACTU targets Qantas-owned Fiji Airways to force IR change in Fiji

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Unions have launched a social media blitz against part-Qantas owned Fiji Airways [Air Pacific rebranded] to steer tourist dollars away from Fiji until its military regime scraps anti-union laws. ACTU president Ged Kearney - a staunch and vocal backer of Fiji's union leaders ( WF17915 , WF 18042 ) - said its Destination Fiji: A Vacation from Workers...

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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

Qantas failure to narrow union strike action all part of the plan

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In a significant analysis of the landmark 2011 Qantas industrial dispute, two leading IR academics have argued the airline deliberately avoided mechanisms in the Fair Work Act for stopping union industrial action so it could pursue its legal strategy of triggering arbitration. In a Melbourne University Law Review paper titled Of ‘Kamikazes' a...

AMIEU wins right to use lunchroom

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The Fair Work Commission has allowed the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) to use an employer's lunchroom for meetings, despite the employer revoking its permission after the union used the media to voice claims of labour hire exploitation. Vice President Michael Lawler's interim decision, ahead of a final determination on an identic...

Coalition IR policy tough on unions, soft on workers

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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has launched the Coalition industrial relations policy promising to “protect the pay and conditions of workers” but signaling a crackdown on “dodgy” unions. “Under our policy, no Australian worker will be worse off, and businesses will be encouraged to grow,” Abbott claimed. Easy doe...

No thundering employer applause just yet as ACCI slams soft touch IR

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Employers gave the Coalition's IR policy a cautious pass mark shortly before press time, with many harbouring concerns the proposed changes don't go far enough. Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox welcomed some of the proposals but said the Coalition's approach was “overly cautious”. He said the policy “does not...

Hunter coal terminal dispute set to widen

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Delegates from five unions were deciding at presstime (May 9) whether to escalate their industrial campaign against Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) in Newcastle, in support of enterprise bargaining demands. Limited action in the form of bans on overtime and work to rule was set to get underway on Sunday (May 12). However, Maritime Union of Austra...

Alcoa flags global job cuts

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Restructuring agreed to 18 months ago and partially implemented could largely shield Australia from threatened global cuts in Alcoa's smelting capacity, a key union has told Workforce Daily . In a May 1 statement, president of Alcoa's global primary products Chris Ayers announced the company's smelting operations would be subject to a “global...

Editorial team

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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: David Marin-Guzman. Journalist: Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR

Coalition IR policy tough on unions, soft on workers

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WFD: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott launched the Coalition industrial relations policy on Thursday (May 9) promising to "protect the pay and conditions of workers" but signalling a crackdown on "dodgy" unions. "Under our policy, no Australian worker will be worse off, and businesses will be encouraged to grow," Abbott claimed. Easy does it in first ...

No thundering employer applause just yet as ACCI slams soft touch IR

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WFD: Employers gave the Coalition's IR policy a cautious pass mark, with many harbouring concerns the proposed changes don't go far enough. Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox welcomed some of the proposals but said the Coalition's approach was "overly cautious". He said the policy "does not go far enough in addressing key concer...

Qantas failure to narrow union strike action all part of the plan

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WFD: In a significant analysis of the landmark 2011 Qantas industrial dispute, two leading IR academics have argued the airline deliberately avoided mechanisms in the Fair Work Act for stopping union industrial action so it could pursue its legal strategy of triggering arbitration. In a Melbourne University Law Review paper titled Of 'Kamikazes' an...

AMIEU wins right to use lunchroom

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has allowed the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) to use an employer's lunchroom for meetings, despite the employer revoking its permission after the union used the media to voice claims of labour hire exploitation. Vice President Michael Lawler's interim decision, ahead of a final determination on an id...

ACTU targets Qantas-owned Fiji Airways to force IR change in Fiji

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WFD: Unions have launched a social media blitz against part-Qantas owned Fiji Airways [Air Pacific rebranded] to steer tourist dollars away from Fiji until its military regime scraps anti-union laws. ACTU president Ged Kearney - a staunch and vocal backer of Fiji's union leaders ( WF17915 , WF18042 ) - said its Destination Fiji: A Vacation from Wor...

Facebook appeal raises landmark jurisdictional issues

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WFD: A Full Federal Court in the Linfox Facebook decision could consider whether it is necessary for parties to establish jurisdictional error when they are appealing a decision of an inferior court. The Full Court - Justices Geoffrey Flick, John Dowsett and John Griffiths - is the first Australian judicial body to consider social media in the empl...

FWC bench upholds workers' s418 right to be heard on short notice

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WFD: A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld the right of unions to be heard at short notice before granting employers s418 stop industrial action interim orders. The bench - Vice President Adam Hatcher, Deputy President Peter Sams and Commissioner Geoffrey Bull - quashed a s418 order Senior Deputy President Peter Richards issued to Lend Lease...

ICAC reveals evidence against Maitland

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WFD: Former miner's union boss John Maitland has denied seeking to deceive the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) over the true intention of the Doyle's Creek "training mine", despite evidence he had given it misleading geological advice and requested departmental staffers not be present at meetings on the issue. Maitland made the denial on...

Workers blame culture & wellbeing for productivity woes, not IR

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WFD: Most workers blame poor workplace culture and a lack of staff wellbeing measures for diminished productivity, a new employee-based survey of workplace productivity has revealed. The fourth six-monthly Ernst & Young Australian Productivity Pulse survey makes no mention of a link between industrial relations policies and productivity. Accord...

Hunter coal terminal strike May 15

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Five unions have decided to escalate their industrial campaign against Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) in Newcastle by going on strike next Wednesday (May 15). Unions had initially planned low-level overtime bans and work to rule action this weekend. However, the unions - a single bargaining unit comprising of the Maritime Union of Australia, the...

FWC warns SMS and non face-to-face dismissal open to challenge

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission has warned employers that SMS sackings and other non face-to-face terminations would "immediately" raise the question as to whether the decision-maker had "sufficient confidence" in the decision. Deputy President Peter Sams made the remarks in a case he described as "one of the worst unfair dismissals on record". Sales...
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