Parliament has today passed with amendments the Albanese Government's legislation to create a pathway for employers to pay historical debts related to unpaid portable long service leave levies that responds to two Federal Court decisions.
The Greens are seeking to disallow a part of the payday super regulations that it says reintroduces discriminatory provisions exempting large employers, with McDonald's the leading example, from having to pay super to under-18s working up to 30 hours a week.
Paid parental leave will increase by 10 days to six months from tomorrow, when increases to the minimum wage and award rates, and payday super changes, also take effect.
Unions have failed to convince FWC President Adam Hatcher that last year's legislation "protecting" penalty rates and overtime is "fatal" to employer cases seeking to vary the clerks and banking awards, with the joined matters referred to a full bench.
An airline has succeeded in having a former manager's redundancy pay cut to zero after the FWC found his insistence on amending an intellectual property clause in his contract did not alter the fact that it offered him "objectively acceptable" alternative employment.
A Federal Court majority has quashed a finding that the Black Coal Award requires BHP's Operations Services in-house labour hire arm to give its workforce two common public holidays off each year, and to cap shifts at 10 hours unless most employees agree to additional hours at overtime rates.
A court has upheld a finding that an energy company must pay portable long service leave charges for its maintenance employees at a Victorian power plant, because they are performing work in the "construction industry".
The FWC has backed a mining company's denial of a worker's request for flexible work to enable her to care for her baby, in a decision finding fairness a "neutral consideration" where both parties have acted reasonably.
Before the first Right to Disconnect dispute hearing, scheduled for this morning, Pacific National resolved the matter in a private conference, leaving the Fair Work Act's RtD provisions untested after 20 months in operation.
