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Banks facing court challenge over reasonable hours

The FSU has launched a Federal Court test case against NAB over alleged unreasonable additional working hours in what the union warns is "just the start" for the industry.

4-day week boosts productivity, reduces stress: UK study

Reduced working hours for the same pay makes organisations more productive, increases their revenue, and benefits employees by decreasing stress and burnout, according to the largest-ever four day working week trial.

One-minute walkout made critical difference: Qantas engineers

The ALAEA says a one-minute strike by Qantas licensed engineers played a crucial role in securing a proposed deal boosting job security as the Flying Kangaroo introduces new aircraft and enables Sydney LAMEs to radically change their roster to achieve "lifestyle benefits", while the airline has today confirmed it cut labour costs by about $570 million under its COVID-19 "recovery plan".

Court to hear chief of staff's bid to keep job

The Federal Court will this morning hear a bid by Teal MP Monique Ryan's chief of staff to keep her job until it finishes dealing with her claims that the Federal Government sacked her for refusing to work unreasonable extra hours and subjected her to "hostile conduct".

Employer got rest rules wrong: FWC

A flight attendant sacked from a Sydney billionaire's private jet for refusing to change hotels before a flight from LA has won compensation, after the FWC found the employer wrongly applied pilots' rest rules and subjected her to an unreasonable order given the time it took her to shop for food for passengers and crew on the long-haul flight.

Super Retail in the gun for subsidiaries' underpayments

In what it claims is its first litigation seeking to have a holding company found responsible for its subsidiaries' breaches, the FWO has initiated court action against ASX-listed Super Retail Group for self-reported underpayments of more than $1 million that led to an internal audit and backpayments exceeding $50 million that the watchdog says remain short of the mark.

HR manager facing criminal sanction after misleading FWC

A FWC full bench has overturned the approval of the Mantle Group's Hot Wok agreement, accusing it of "deliberate manipulation of the statutory process of making enterprise agreements" and is considering referring the company's senior HR manager to the AFP for potential criminal prosecution for deliberately providing false or misleading information to the tribunal.

Firm 38-hour cap would boost gender equality: Research

University researchers have told the Senate's work and care inquiry that long working hours are now the main driver of the gender pay gap and recommend capping the working week at 38 hours as a step towards gender equality.

Deal's nominal expiry date the wrong marker: FWC bench

A FWC full bench has thwarted a multinational company's attempt to end to a 30-year practice of maintenance workers banking two hours' leave a week in lieu of pay rises, finding a member wrongly concluded the arrangement could be changed when its agreement reached its nominal expiry date.

ABC employees considering PIA after rejecting offer

ABC employees' almost three-quarters majority rejection of a deal unilaterally offered by the public broadcaster edges them closer to ending a "business model of overwork, underpay and inequality", according to the MEAA, which together with the CPSU is seeking almost twice the organisation's 9.5% proposal.

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