Qantas has secured new deals with freight pilots and unlicenced aircraft engineers but the threat of turmoil looms, with licensed engineers voting to stop work, ground crew considering it and the FAAA claiming domestic fight attendants are facing ultimatums.
An employer must pay compensation to a "pro-choice" worker sacked for missing a COVID-19 vaccination deadline after the FWC found that, unlike a colleague, it failed to afford her a chance to take leave while awaiting the impending approval of the Novavax jab.
The ANMF will continue to pursue a nursing home it says should be paying members for the time it takes to perform a COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test before entering the facility, despite the FWC find it unclear "what possible basis" existed to make such a claim.
The FWC has accepted "social media equivalent" evidence of employee opposition before rejecting a food co-op's bid to terminate an agreement on the basis its wage rates could force the business to close.
The High Court will next month consider whether to grant special leave to hear the first appeal to reach its doors over government COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
A government corporation's HR manager had "zero interest" in discussing workplace COVID-19 vaccination requirements with a worker who justifiably raised the matter under an agreement's dispute terms, the FWC has found.
In a case involving one lawyer accusing another of being "either breathtakingly stupid or complicit in the ongoing fraud", a Federal Court judge has today refused to throw out an adverse action case brought by a storeperson sacked for refusing to wear a mask.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of a worker who ran late every day for nearly four years and kept failing to use its bundy system has also identified her fake vaccination certificate and recommended referring her alleged offence to authorities.
A leading labour economist has scotched suggestions that Australia has experienced a US-style "great resignation", explaining last year's higher job quit rate as a "catch-up".
