Employers intend to mount a "material" case in opposition to the union bid for health and community workers to receive paid leave if they are required to self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic.
Drought, bushfires and pandemic panic-buying have contributed to the highest annual consumer price inflation since 2014, according to ABS quarterly data released today.
Three unions and an employer group have applied to introduce a temporary hourly allowance of almost $5 an hour for disability workers to compensate the sector's low-paid workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The FWC has published a JobKeeper disputes benchbook as it clocks 120 applications to deal with disputes under the scheme, while a union-run 'Jobscammer' website recorded more than 250 responses in its first week.
A Federal Court judge has promised today to rule swiftly on whether Qantas employees stood down due to the coronavirus pandemic can access paid personal (sick) leave, carers' leave and compassionate leave.
The Morrison Government's second COVID-19 economic response package contained $30 billion-plus in cashflow support that amounted to a separate wage subsidy to JobKeeper, according to Treasury, which also revealed today that more than half a million employers have enrolled in JobKeeper.
The shop union says a toy retail chain is wrongly seeking to make nomination for the JobKeeper payment conditional on a casual employee tripling their normal hours, while the increase in working time is also unreasonable under the wage subsidy scheme, but the employer says it is simply asking its casuals to share the load as it struggles to survive a 100% reduction in business.
An FWC full bench will grant a joint bid for coronavirus-driven changes to the award covering non-teaching staff in non-government schools, unless it receives opposing submissions by 4pm.
