Australia: Details of McCormick Foods industrial agreement reveal union sell-out
More than two months after the end of a six-week strike, by almost 100 manufacturing workers at a McCormick Foods plant in Melbourne, the details of the industrial agreement have been made public, via the Fair Work Commission.
The text exposes the fraud of the United Workers Union (UWU) boast of securing a significant win for the workers. Not a single improvement in conditions was won. A new night shift was agreed to, that potentially allows the company to slash overtime wage payments, along with an annual wage increase of just 3 percent.
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Take-away outlet operator faces court
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action in the Federal Circuit Court against the operator of a Sydney take-away food outlet.
Facing court is Heun Ok Kurosawa, a sole trader operating the ‘Sydney Kimbab Nara’ outlet on George Street, in the Sydney CBD.
The regulator began an investigation after receiving a request from a worker who had been employed as a kitchen assistant at the outlet for about three months last year.
A Fair Work Inspector issued a Compliance Notice to Ms Kurosawa in February 2021 after forming a belief that the worker had been paid low, flat rates for all hours worked, resulting in underpayment of her minimum wage rate, casual loadings and weekend penalty rates under the Fast Food Industry Award 2010.
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Attorney-General Michaelia Cash and Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas
It’s been over a year since Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins’ report on sexual harassment in the workplace in Australia, [email protected], was released.
After a long delay, the Morrison government published its response to the report in April, and followed up by quietly introducing a bill to legislate some of these changes last week.
The bill proposes changes primarily to the
Sex Discrimination Act and the
Fair Work Act. While some of these changes are welcome and long overdue, the bill doesn’t go nearly far enough to protect women or prevent harassment at work.
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