The AiG is calling for the FWC to reject the ACTU's "misguided and inappropriate" draft "right to disconnect" award clause, and AREEA is recommending the final clause mirror the legislation, rather than expand it.
The ACTU says the "right to disconnect" clause to be inserted into awards should provide "descriptive guidance" on how the entitlement would operate and the FWC should reject employers' proposed "minimalist" approach, ahead of consultations next week and the Commission releasing a draft provision next month.
Extending employers' duty of care to the disciplining and sacking of workers would not "frustrate" contractual certainty or disrupt businesses, lawyers for a charity's former consultant have told the High Court.
FWC President Adam Hatcher will conduct a directions hearing next Thursday to tackle two FAAA "same-job, same-pay" claims on behalf of Qantas labour hire cabin crew engaged via Maurice Alexander Management and one of the airline's many subsidiaries.
The MEU has filed 10 "same-job, same-pay" applications targeting BHP coal mines in Queensland, seeking to lift the pay of about 1700 labour hire workers by between $10,000 and $40,000 a year and stamp out a model that has "spread like a cancer" in the industry.
Retailers need to establish a joint committee with the SDA to address "routine and unavoidable" s-xual harassment in the sector, according to a new report.
The FWC has refused to reduce two FIFO workers' redundancy pay, finding that redeployment offers did not amount to "other acceptable employment" because they were given insufficient time to consider roster changes that would also have reduced their time at home.
An employer did not discriminate against a lawyer when it twice declined to roll over short, fixed-term contracts that would have entitled her to paid maternity leave, an appeal panel has found.
The FAAA says the Qantas response to its first "same-job, same-pay" claims on behalf of domestic labour hire cabin crew will say "an awful lot" about the leadership of new chief executive Vanessa Hudson, as the union foreshadows more applications to come.
