Qantas customer service airport workers, head office and call centre staff have voted up a deal delivering "well above" the Flying Kangaroo's wage cap policy, securing at least 5% in the first year alone plus "vital" job security protections, according to the ASU.
The author of a book tracing 150 years of campaigning for a shorter Australian working week says it offers crucial lessons for current efforts to win a four-day work week, cut unpaid overtime, and properly account for domestic labour, while AMWU national secretary Steve Murphy considers it part of a "just transition".
Men are using reproductive leave almost as much as women, a Queensland Council of Unions survey of State public sector workers has revealed, one year after the introduction of the entitlement.
A House of Representatives committee has begun an inquiry into the "operation and adequacy" of the National Employment Standards, after a referral from Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth.
New federal legislation will create a pathway for employers to pay historical debts related to unpaid portable long service leave levies, following two full Federal Court decisions that clarified the eligibility of employees in the black coal industry.
Industry super fund Cbus has been hit with a $23.5 million penalty for delaying payment of death benefits and total and permanent disability claims to thousands of members.
A four-member FWC full bench has formally put on hold a review of the right to disconnect provisions, due to a paucity of case law, but recent commentary by tribunal president Adam Hatcher and leading academic lawyer Andrew Stewart indicate the jury is still out on the reasons for the litigation deficit and the impacts of the reforms.
The FWC has backed an ASX-listed early education provider's decision to reject a worker's request for flexible arrangements to enable her to keep picking up her children from school each day, instead of moving to a less-accommodating rotating roster.
BHP's in-house labour hire company has been fined $15,000 and ordered to pay 85 production employees between $800 and $2400 each in compensation for unreasonably requiring them to work across Christmas holidays.
The Federal Government's long service leave scheme for the black coal industry has won special leave from the High Court to challenge a full Federal Court judgment that it says has significant implications for the LSL eligibility of shotfiring and explosive services workers.
