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Setka convicted for harassing wife, refuses to quit as CFMMEU Vic sec

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WFD: Victorian construction union secretary John Setka has been convicted and fined $1,000 for using a mobile phone to harass a woman, who it can now be revealed is his wife, Emma Walters. In the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday (June 26), Setka pleaded guilty to two charges of using a carriage service to harass Walters. Magistrate Belinda ...

Court ruling reaffirms need to hold valid federal right-of-entry permit

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WFD: Union officials must hold valid federal entry permits when exercising rights of entry under state or territory occupational health and safety (OHS) laws ( WF 2/06/17 ), a Federal Court penalty judgment reaffirms. Fining Victorian construction union official Michael Powell $2,600 for entering a job site without a permit, Justice Mordy Bromberg ...

News cuts hurt regional Australia

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WFD: The loss of 40 jobs in four newsrooms of the WIN Network in NSW and Qld was a “devastating blow” to regional Australia, according to the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). The latest closures follow the abandonment last year of WIN's locally produced news bulletin in Tasmania. MEAA media director Katelin McInerney said ...

Alternative Folau legal defence fund rocketing towards $3m goal

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WFD: Fund raising website GoFundMe's shutting down of Israel Folau's legal defence fund has failed to dent his campaign, with an alternative site expected to raise more than $1m for the sacked rugby star in its first day of operation (June 25). In a statement, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said it had set up the trust account and would donat...

Domino's hit with class action

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WFD: Domino's Pizza has been hit with a class action alleging the company “systemically” rorted workers on wages for close to five years. The claim brought by specialist class action law firm Phi Finney McDonald is being funded by global litigation provider Therium Litigation Finance. “The class action alleges that Domino's improp...

‘Whistleblowing' CEO loses adverse action claim

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WFD: A sacked CEO has had his claims for adverse action and whistle-blower protection quashed by the Federal Court. Justice Simon Steward said he found Peter Bowd had not made the complaints under good faith, but “to prevent the termination of his employment arising from his performance as CEO”. The Environmental Group appointed Bowd CE...

Dismissed train worker slammed for responsibility failure

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has told a Sydney Train worker, dismissed after his co-workers were almost hit by a train, his testimony was “riddled with unsubstantiated bravado, inconsistencies and improbabilities.” In rejecting his case, Deputy President Peter Sams said the applicant - the most senior person on site when the safe...

Sacked chief ops manager awarded six-months' pay for adverse action

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WFD: An investment advisement firm has been ordered to pay more than $150,000 in compensation and penalties after it sacked a chief operations manager for refusing to sign a new contract. The Federal Court heard Steven Tran ripped up the contract and said he would seek legal advice after his role at North Sydney-based Kodari Securities (KOSEC) was ...

McManus seeks meeting with PM to plead scrapping July 1 pen rate cut

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WFD: Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus has written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison seeking an urgent meeting to try to convince him to scrap the penalty rate cut due to kick in on July 1. In her letter McManus called on the PM to strengthen wages by reversing penalty rates cuts, introducing a national living wage, a...

PM says IR system review will awaken economy's ‘animal spirits'

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WFD: The Coalition government will review the industrial relations system - once employers have provided evidence of the need for change, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed in a June 24 speech . Speaking at the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce, Morrison said he had asked new IR minister Christian Porter to “take a fresh look at ...

No need for sweeping FW Act changes, just tweaks: Ai Group

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WFD: Employer groups have welcomed Prime Minister Scott Morrison's move to review the industrial relations system (see story above) . The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) chief executive Innes Willox said a review of IR laws was “crucial … to meeting the urgent need to improve our flatlining national productivity”. He said ...

Unions argue Qantas bonus scheme discriminates against workers

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WFD: The Fair Work Commission (FWC) will decide whether a Qantas bonus scheme discriminates against workers by making it conditional on them signing up to new enterprise agreement (EA) while delivering the bonus immediately to managers. The bonus is made up of a $500 staff travel credit and a cash component of $2,000 (full-time workers) and $1500 (...

Employer fined for partnering CFMMEU in no-ticket-no start deal

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WFD: The Federal Court has fined an employer $16,200 for sacking a subcontractor who wasn't up to date with his construction union dues. Justice Michael Wheelahan handed down the fine against Prolac Pty Ltd and its director Tim Petrusic for terminating the subcontractor on the EQ Tower project in Melbourne's CBD in 2017. The company admitted taking...

Rogue labour hire provider fined $60k for not having licence

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WFD: In the first prosecution of its type, a labour hire provider has been fined $60k after supplying workers to a business without a licence to do so. Labour hire businesses in Qld are now required to be licenced under the Qld Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017. Appearing in Stanthorpe Magistrates Court, A and J Group Services Pty Ltd was found guilty...

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Journalists : Steve Andrew, Rajiv Maharaj, Luke Williams, John Reynolds. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab.

Many thanks and goodbye

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A new Industrial Relations minister in Christian Porter (did the ACTU mean to refer to him yesterday as “Industrial Rotations” minister?) and yet another review of the IR legislation - the more things change the more things stay the same in the political IR debate. However, this is the final edition of Workforce , 45 years after its lau...

Full Federal Court upholds coal mining industry accident pay cut

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A Full Federal Court has upheld a decision slashing accident pay in the Black Coal Mining Industry (BCMI) Award from 78 weeks to 52. In September last year, a Fair Work Commission full bench accepted arguments from the Coal Mining Industry Employer Group (CMIEG) and cut the entitlement ( WF 29/09/19 ) . The bench analysed accident rates for the ind...

Full bench junks EA covering power station maintenance workers

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A Fair Work Commission full bench has junked approval of an enterprise agreement (EA) covering workers employed by a contractor providing maintenance services to power stations in the La Trobe Valley, after identifying errors in the approval process. Ordering Commissioner Sarah McKinnon to rehear the matter, the bench found she had erred in not giv...

$8k compensation for worker sacked for threatening colleague

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A leading hand sacked for threatening to take a more junior work colleague outside and “sort him out” after he questioned his authority has been awarded $8,646 for unfair dismissal. Fair Work Commissioner Sarah McKinnon found there was a valid reason for Haider Ali's dismissal. However, she said Ali's previously unblemished work record ...

Bullying orders not to be used as ‘stalking horse' says FWC

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The Fair Work Commission has declined to allow an “oppressive” application by three stop-bullying claimants to stop their employer's performance management processes. Deputy President Peter Sams said it was “not acceptable to use the stop-bullying jurisdiction of this Cmn as a shield or ‘stalking horse', to prevent, delay or...




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