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 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.
Unions have unveiled a website to gather case studies of employers allegedly rorting the JobKeeper scheme and its intended $1500-a-fortnight wage subsidy.
The CFMMEU has warned it will push back against construction employers seeking to make rapid changes to enterprise agreements which cut pay and conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virgin Australia will continue to operate with its 10,500 strong workforce kept in employment and accessing the Morrison government's JobKeeper wage subsidy, according to its administrator, Deloitte, while the Federal Government has appointed a former Macquarie Bank leader to liaise with the administrator.
Virgin Australia Holdings Limited has this morning gone into voluntary administration, as unions intensify their campaign for the Morrison Government to intervene and save the airline's 16,000 direct and indirect jobs
