Cabin crew employed by Qantas in-house labour hire company Qantas Domestic are in line for base pay rises of up to $20,000 a year, while on-hire workers employed by Maurice Alexander Management and Altara and placed at the airline will win increases of up to 43%, under a settlement of the FAAA's crucial same-job, same-pay claim.
It would have been "sensible" for a worker to take up the "generous support" offered by his employer, rather than filing an "unwarranted" anti-bullying claim, the FWC has ruled, finding a performance management plan, letter of expectations and a warning amounted to reasonable management action.
The FWC has put a global services giant's proposed new catering agreement at a Queensland mine on hold after weighing claims of casuals being parachuted in around voting time against hard evidence that it will cut workers' pay by more than $10,000 a year.
A four-member FWC full bench has knocked back arguments by the host employer at a NSW open cut coal mine and its labour hire providers that it would be unfair and unreasonable, or even unconstitutional, to grant same-job, same-pay orders.
The FWC has extended time due to representative error, after a lawyer with "extensive experience in employment matters" who is also the author of an article on his firm's website about the "hurdles" to "jump over" to make an unfair dismissal claim, including the 21-day time limit, lodged a client's application four days late.
Team Jetstar cabin crew have voted up an agreement variation that the TWU says will leave them and fellow labour hire colleagues at Altara about $8000 a year better off thanks to "same-job, same-pay negotiations" and a new protected rate of pay.
A guest services worker at one of the country's largest shopping centres might have avoided the sack if she had promptly returned a $130 voucher mistaken for a gift, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has overturned a commissioner's decision to "unilaterally" and without warning "administratively close" a general protections claim based on his incorrect belief that the parties had reached a settlement.
The FWC has refused to hear a BP worker's three-day late challenge to her sacking after she revealed she ignored a clear direction not to record the disciplinary meeting at which the employer summarily sacked her.
A transport company is to be referred to the FWO over its "alarming" indifference to its obligations as an employer, after an unfair dismissal case in which it exhibited "disregard" for the FWC before being ordered to pay $30,000 to a former worker sacked without warning.
