Metropolitan and regional councils across Australia will be randomly audited as part of a Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) campaign to ensure local government procurement decisions are not undermining compliance with federal workplace laws
5 August, 2015Cleaners across Australia awarded Treasurer Joe Hockey the 2015 Golden Toilet Brush Award as Parliament House cleaners began a 24 hour strike.
15 June, 2015United Voice (UV) has thanked outgoing secretary David O’Byrne for his service as national secretary. He resigned to spend more time with his young family in Hobart, said a mid-May UV press release.
19 May, 2015In response to a United Voice claim posted on 4 May TFM Australia has reimbursed all payments made by five of its cleaners to a supervisor who required that they pay her to be hired to work on a Sydney office site.
7 May, 2015Cleaners were charged $500 for jobs that pay $15 an hour – less than the minimum award wage – at one of Sydney’s premiere office buildings, 388 George St, claims United Voice (UV), the cleaners’ union.
4 May, 2015United Voice (UV), ‘the cleaners’ union’, says Australia’s workplace relations laws are failing to protect cleaners from widespread and systematic exploitation by unethical contract cleaning companies.
12 March, 2015Contracted cleaners at the (federal) Department of Immigration and Border Protection are receiving $2 an hour less, even though Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Employment Minister Eric Abetz said this would not happen.
2 March, 2015United Voice has accused private security company ISS of ‘putting the public at risk’ by demanding officers at Cairns Airport in Queensland perform dual roles, states a 25 November press release.
25 November, 2014According to a recent post on the United Voice’s website, ‘The MCC (Melbourne Cricket Club) has reminded ISS of their obligations under the current contract and we (United Voice) have advised that ISS must ensure that all of their employment obligations are met.
25 September, 2014Prompted by a statement (12 September) by United Voice (UV) that ‘Contractors working at the Melbourne Cricket Ground are systematically cheating cleaners by paying them up to $16 an hour less than their legal pay and insisting they complete unpaid work’, prime contractor ISS is investigating the Union’s claims.
16 September, 2014The Australian (27 June) reported that ‘Employment Minister Eric Abetz has taken extraordinary action to bypass the Senate and enforce pay cuts on commonwealth cleaners.’
28 June, 2014Cleaning contractors came together in Canberra on Tuesday 3 December at a historic ACT Legislative Assembly ceremony to mark the re-signing of the Clean Start Collective Agreements by 16 cleaning contractors. ‘The first Clean Start Collective Agreement was signed in Canberra in 2008 after a long, hard battle by cleaners for fair pay, better jobs and higher […]
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