A FWC senior member has warned Virgin Australia pilots that if they reject a recommended offer, including what the TWU says is a "historic" pay boost of up to 21% over three years and a sign-on bonus, it will create "further uncertainty and prevent substantive pay increases" for all.
South Australia's Malinauskas Government is likely to soon secure passage of legislation establishing a portable long service leave scheme for the community services sector, with potential to build on it to include other sectors in future.
The Federal Court this Friday will hear the HSU's urgent interlocutory application to put its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, after the union filed claims that branch leader Diana Asmar threatened to kill, sack and expose an employee who allegedly blew the whistle on her alleged misappropriation of funds.
A full Federal Court has overturned a ruling that Sydney Trains unlawfully discriminated against a trainee driver it sacked for failing to disclose that she had ADHD and autism, finding a judge relied on a "number of interrelated assumptions" unsupported by evidence.
The FWC has extended time for a worker's one-day-late unfair dismissal claim, finding his employer's "misleading" letter confirming his sacking resulted in his representative miscalculating the deadline.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has accepted an enforceable undertaking from the TWU after a whistleblower exposed the Victorian branch's practice of retaining resigned members on its register for up to three years, rather than the 28 days allowed under the Registered Organisations Act.
The FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home looks to be a slow burn, with a hearing likely next June following a possible employee survey.
The FWC has granted separate extensions of time to two workers challenging their dismissals, after attaching significant weight to the deaths of close family members.
Queensland's Miles Government has secured the passage of legislation to introduce a broad positive duty to eliminate not only sexual harassment and harassment on the basis of s-x, but discrimination and "other objectionable conduct" as far as possible.
