Ross Clarke
Ross Clarke has more than a decade’s experience in the enterprise bargaining room.
The knowledge and skill he has acquired in this time has enabled him to develop a highly sophisticated planning and process model for successful enterprise bargaining. This proven methodology delivers results across all industries including distribution, hospitality, banking, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and gaming.
“Ross’s knowledge of industrial relations and his ability to understand how and when to communicate internally with government; and with the media were instrumental in guiding the Association’s successful response to the campaign.”
Patrick Griffin OAM, Australian Hotels Association
Contact Work Relations
Mobile: 0419 401 702
Email ross@workrelations.com.au
L3, 97 Pacific Hwy
North Sydney
Australia
You Can’t Pick the Opposing Team
/in Homepage News, The Bargaining Process /by rossWhen an employee is a member of a union that is a bargaining representative for an enterprise agreement, then that employee is able to attend negotiations under the union’s umbrella. And an employer’s attempt to exclude such an employee from discussions has been thwarted by the Fair Work Commission. The employee had filed for workers’ […]
Annualised Salaries and Superannuation
/in Homepage News, ROE + General /by rossThe often-vexed question of exactly how much of an employee’s annualised salary is to be taken into account to calculate superannuation entitlement has been analysed by the full federal court. And it has found that the component of an annualised salary attributed to work beyond ordinary time, is not to be counted for superannuation purposes. […]
Privacy Rules
/in Bargaining Research /by rossAn employer has been hit with $60,000 in damages for giving employees names to a union without the employees’ consent. The trouble started for the company during the Royal Commission into Union Corruption when it was discovered that the company had furnished employees’ names, and a cheque, to the union, during enterprise bargaining negotiations. But […]
No Cap on Bargaining Reps
/in The Bargaining Process /by rossWhile it may make good sense to keep bargaining committees down to a manageable size, arbitrarily limiting the number of bargaining representatives is not the way to go. This, along with a few other procedural flaws, resulted in an agreement being knocked back by the FWC recently, when it became clear the mistakes were too […]
Penalties and Casual Loading Confusion
/in Bargaining Research /by rossA recent FWC appeal bench has dealt with the often vexed question of what rate of pay applies to casuals on overtime and other penalty-attracting situations. Agreeing with the decision made at first instance, the bench applied certain penalties to the loaded casual rate, which appears to be at odds with the raison d’etre for […]
Common Sense Returns
/in Agreement Approval /by rossThe Fair Work Commission has waved through an application for agreement approval despite what would once have been fatal errors in the process and paperwork. Relying on recent amendments to the Fair Work Act, the decision acknowledged errors had been made but none were of such magnitude or import to justify sending the employer and […]
Stop-work Meetings a Bargaining Loop-Hole?
/in Bargaining Research /by rossWhen a construction company agreed to include a union meeting clause in its enterprise agreements, it clearly didn’t foresee the provision being used to create mayhem on its building sites. But that’s what happened, with the stop work meetings being used by the union to pressure the company to stop using non-union contractors on its […]
No Point in Nitpicking
/in The Bargaining Process /by rossArguing about the meaning of a word in a Protected Action Ballot Order (PABO) as a means to head off protected industrial action has proved to be something of a folly for Australia’s largest telco. The Fair Work Commission has dismissed the attempt, saying that the wording of a PABO is not to be interpreted […]