WFD: Health Services Union (HSU) national secretary Kathy Jackson has joined forces with a group of "concerned" members and set up a website she says is designed to help members understand what is going on within the embattled union. The group claims many members remain in the dark about what happened to prompt Fair Work Australia's investigation i...
HSU splinter group creates website
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FW Act double-dipping laws apply to State EO complaints: FM Lucev
WFD: In a decision exploring the double-dipping provisions of the Fair Work Act and its application over state laws, Federal Magistrate Toni Lucev has barred a woman from pursuing a sexual harassment and discrimination complaint with the Western Australia Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) while she has an adverse action claim afoot in the Federal ...
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Port Kembla strike
Union officials and management were in talks at Fair Work Australia at press time as the week-long strike by workers at BHP Biliton's Port Kembla coal terminal looked set to continue over the weekend. CFMEU NSW branch state secretary Bob Timbs was non-committal on the prospects of breakthrough today. "It's early days yet," he told Workforce . The c...
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FW Act makes IR more expensive and time consuming: AHRI report
The Fair Work Act has made it harder for human resources professionals to do their job as they need to spend more time and money on industrial relations, a new survey from the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) has revealed. AHRI research report The Fair Work Act: Its impact on Australian workplaces collates the responses of 691 HR profess...
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SACS win for workers and unions; Watson says it's a loss for the law
WFD: By a 4:1 majority, the Fair Work Australia full bench has agreed to award Social and Community Sector (SACS) workers equal remuneration pay increases against the Modern Award at the rates recommended by the union-Federal Government joint submission. This despite rejecting both of the methods the submission used to justify the percentages. (Con...
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Bowen Basin coal miners ready to down tools in fortnight
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance's (BMA) seven Bowen Basin coal mines could be hit with strike action in the next fortnight after Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) members overwhelmingly knocked back the Alliance's 5% pay rise offer on Friday saying its 5% pay rise did not offset conditions the deal would strip away ( WF18075 ) . CF...
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Qantas could dump Darwin & Cairns if foreign crew restrictions come in
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told a Senate inquiry the airline would be forced to dump services from Asian and European tourist sources to Cairns and Darwin if it has restrictions placed on hiring foreign flight crew. Appearing before the Senate's inquiry into the Air Navigation and Civil Aviation Amendment (Aircraft Crew) Bill 2011 , and the Qantas S...
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Vic nurses rule out industrial action but mass resignations still an option
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says it won't renew industrial action when its 90-day FWA-issued suspension order ( WF18004 ) expires at the end of next week, but it has not ruled out mass resignations. ANF Vic assistant secretary Paul Gilbert told Workforce Daily mass resignations "remains an option if we don't get traction any other way"....
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Kate Corbett. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab.
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Finally a boost for services sector - particularly hospitality & finance
January saw a lift in activity in the services sector for the first time in three months, the latest Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) shows. The seasonally adjusted index was 2.9 points stronger in January, reaching 51.9 points - indicating an expansion in activity. The strongest performing ...
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Nothing improper about FWA-HSU inquiry: Prof Stewart
Fair Work Australia has handled its inquiry into the Health Services Union (HSU) properly but legitimate questions have been raised about the length of the investigation and whether there has been political interference, industrial relations specialist Professor Andrew Stewart has told Workforce Daily. The industrial tribunal has been widely critic...
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More industrial action planned for Port Kembla coal terminal
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has confirmed rolling stoppages of up to 48 hours will go ahead at the BHP-operated Port Kembla coal terminal over the next two weeks after the port's management board knocked back a peace deal late on Friday (February 3). CFMEU NSW South Western district vice president Bob Timbs told Workforce ...
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Brisbane to kick off public hearings on insecure work
The ACTU has been inundated by written submissions to its insecure work inquiry and next week will start hearing first-hand experiences. The inquiry's first public hearing will be at the Brisbane Convention Centre next Monday (February 13) between 10am and 4pm. It will hold another 24 hearings across the country, wrapping up in Melbourne on March 2...
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Vic public servants stumped by Govt's jurisdictional objections
Victorian public servants are no closer to reaching agreement with the State Government on agreed terms for the s266 workplace determination as the parties appeared before Vice President Michael Lawler for a directions hearing in Fair Work Australia today. The Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) says the agreed upon matters are far from settled wi...
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Overtime bans back but no Bowen Basin coalmine strikes this week
Total overtime bans will resume at Bowen Basin coal mines on Friday, the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) confirmed to Workforce Daily at press time. The union dismissed rumours of strike action commencing this week. "We're still looking at the logistics of stoppages and we haven't given the three days' notice required so there'll ...
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IR specialist 'not a good cultural fit', loses adverse action claim
An industrial relations specialist who claimed he had been sacked for complaining about being bullied has lost his adverse action claim. The Federal Magistrates Court (FMC) found Airservices Australia had dismissed Geoffrey Stevenson because he was 'not a good cultural fit' for the company and had failed to establish good working relationships with...
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Heinz to reinstate executive after performance management debacle
Fair Work Australia has ordered Heinz to reinstate a senior sales manager it sacked for refusing to take part in a performance review plan (PIP). Heinz dismissed its Western Australia field sales manager Frank Moretti on August 19, 2011 after he refused to sign off on a PIP the company had prepared for him. Moretti viewed the PIP with suspicion bas...
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